Re: Device Manager Issue

Rick -

Thanks and thanks...
Changing the jumper to Master only made the primary slave invisible in BIOS
- switched it back.
This is getting complicated...
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Terry Davidson


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

Some devices are finicky about placement. You might try placing the new Sony
drive as a master.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Terry Davidson" <TerryDavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Rick,

Thanks for the reply and the questions. Here's what I got....

This is what the BIOS reads:
Primary Master - my harddrive's model #
Primary Slave - Sony CDRW xxxxx (jumper set to Slave)
Secondary Master - Sony DVD/CD RW xxxxx (jumper set to Master)
Secondary Slave - Toshiba DVD ROM xxxxx (jumper set to Slave)

As far as the ribbons go - the connects at the ends are connected to the
Masters, the connects at the mid points are connected to the Slaves.


Terry Davidson


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

Hi Terry,

What does the BIOS read the drives as?
Did you recheck that jumpers are set correctly? Made that mistake myself
a
few times....

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Terry Davidson" <TerryDavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Thanks for getting back to me, sorry I 'm slow getting back to you...

Roberto - nope, uninstalling/reinstalling did not work - it was my
first
reaction, too.

Nutcase - Your suggested download did not work, either, which is too
bad,
because it's pretty insane that such a tweak actually exists.

Nor did a combination of the two....hmmm.

In Device Manager under IDE/ATA...Controllers, all three of the drives
are
shown to be working properly and have been assigned 'ultra DMA' modes
(2,4...) but are not identified - the window looks like this under
Advanced
Settings:

Device Type - Auto Detect (grayed out)
Tranfer Mode: DMA if available
Current transfer mode: Ultra DMA mode 2 (or 4 or whatever...)

Any other ideas? Could I effect change if I could access the Device
Type
slot?
Thanks again
Terry Davidson


"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

Hi,

See if this helps:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Under section 8 - Problems - there is a link to a patch that often
resolves
this problem

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Terry Davidson" <TerryDavidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi,
Irecently added a Sony DVD-RW to my hardware to suppliment a Toshiba
DVD-R
and a Sony CD-RW. After doing so, Device Manager no longer contains
a
heading for CD drives and has moved all three of these devices to
"Unknown"
category.

They all seem to working fine and "IDE Drives" category has DMA
assigned
to
the all.

Can anyone explain why Device Manager no longer identifies these
devices?

Thanks in advance,
--
Terry Davidson









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