Author Topic: HELP anyone please (Read 271 times)

krazyhorse · « **on:** February 13, 2003, 02:53:01 PM »

ok i just bought a "barebones computer for my son it came with MB/ intel cel 1.8 478 pin, power supply and case, ok now i have put our old HD in it old cd/rw in it and old floppy , now i cannot get it to use the cd/rw it recognizes that it is there but i cannot get it to work , (was going to put xp in HD,) ok now i have formatted the old HD and really need the cd/r to get this to work, is there some jumper setting or bios setting needed fo IR interface?? anyone any help would be apreciated Thanks

Maverick · « **Reply #1 on:** February 13, 2003, 04:22:43 PM »

Check the bios to see if it is there as well as looking for IRQ conflicts. Make sure the cable (data) is a good one. Perhaps it is defective?

Is it a DMA capable CD and is DMA on in the system?

Just a couple ideas I had on this. I am still fighting a gremlin on my machine too.

SOB · « **Reply #2 on:** February 13, 2003, 04:30:40 PM »

Are you daisy-chaining the hard drive and CDRW, or are they plugged into separate IDE ports? There will be jumpers on both the hard drive and CDRW. If you're plugging them into separate ports, just make sure the CDRW isn't set to "CSEL" or "Cable Select"...Primary or Secondary/Slave should work fine. If it's daisy-chained with the hard drive, chances are it should be Secondary/Slave.

SOB

krazyhorse · « **Reply #3 on:** February 13, 2003, 07:58:13 PM »

ty yall figured it out about half an hour after i posted this. all it took was loggin in to aces high and seeing that skuzzy reset arena to same map agian, so went back to bios , after all bios pissed me off less than another reset to same arena, any yes it was in bios and what i did was make the cd/r the second boot item instead of the third,i havent done anything like this in awhile was having masive brain farts:mad: thank yall for responding so quickly , seems this is the best help forum on the internet<>