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Old October 29th 05, 11:59 PM
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Default Secondary IDE controller problem

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q237948
Troubleshoot CD-R_W

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=218617
Troubleshoot CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

I guess, a first try would be...

(1) Boot to Safe Mode. (Hold F5 as you boot, or hold CTRL for the
Startup Menu, & select Safe Mode from that.)
(2) "START, Settings, Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab".
(3) Open the CD-ROM branch, by clicking it's plus sign.
(4) Highlight each drive in that branch, & click "Remove".
(Safe Mode may reveal the presence of a "ghost".)
(5) Close up, & boot to Normal Mode.

Hopefully Windows will find the correct drivers, & all will be well.

As cquirke once said, "Control Panel, System, Performance tab". Are you
in "compatibility" mode? Then, try his site...
http://cquirke.mvps.org/9x/doscompat.htm

Also...
http://support.microsoft.com/default...79&Product=w98
Troubleshooting MS-DOS Compatibility Mode on Hard Disks
(130179) - The Performance tab in System properties shows that one or
more of the hard disks in your computer is using MS-DOS Compatibility
mode. MS-DOS compatibility mode may be in use either for the file system
or for virtual memory. You may receive the...


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Jonno" wrote in message
...
| Running Win98 on a PIII 450 with 64 MB RAM, I cannot see the CD drive.
|
| This is strange for many reasons, not least of which. I installed the
OS
| from a CD!
|
| The CD drive is visible to the BIOS, and works well if I boot to DOS
with
| the Win98 floppy.
|
| In Windows there is a problem with the Secondary IDE controller (dual
fifo)
| – “The device is either not present, not working properly or does
not have
| all the drivers installed (Code 10)�.
|
| I tried updating the driver, but Windows reported that it already had
the
| best one. I tried deleting the whole Intel 82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master
IDE
| Controller (from device manager) and rebooting, and both primary IDE
and
| secondary IDE controllers seemed to reinstall properly, but the
problem was
| still there.
|
| To pre-empt a question, I am using the Secondary IDE controller
because the
| computer case is so badly designed I cannot get the CD drive on the
same
| cable as the hard drive.
|
| I’d be grateful for any thoughts or advice on this one.
|