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cd-roms not accessible
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Posted by: Victor6
To start off I have a 1200 MHZ Athalon, 256 DDR RAM, 20GB ATA 100 hard drive, ECS K7S5A mother board, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (64.0 Mb) video and Soundblaster Live sound, Windows XP Pro.
This computer is only 2 months old and worked fine to start with. Now I turn it on and it automatically finds the cd drive on the secondary IDE but when Windows starts I have no access to the drive.
I thought it was my cd-rom and wanted a burner so I installed a burner as a slave on IDE 2, it is also automatically detected but Windows does not see it either.
I would like to put one of these drives on IDE 1 as a slave but my ribbon calbe is not long enough to reach it and my hard drive.
I am afraid to try and reinstall Windows from scratch because if I don' t have cd-rom support I am scewed.
Any help would be appreciated!!
Posted by: Sops
Define does no see. It is not im my computer or u cann't read the CDs?
Posted by: Victor6
They do not show up in My Computer. I have also tried to go to those drives in dos and they are not responsive that way either.
Posted by: Outlaw
Are the IDE controllers installed correctly in device management? If not, remove them and restart, windows should be able to reinstall them without the windows cd.
Posted by: Victor6
Thanks SniperIII, I checked to see if they are installed correctly and windows says they are both fine. Not too sure if I should still try to remove and reinstall?
Posted by: Outlaw
That probably wouldn't help, I don't know what more you could try though 
Posted by: Darky!
I've had this problem many times before. It was all due to the battery on the motherboard beeing flat. Although your computer is only 2 moths old, it is still a possibility. Something to look into 
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