optical drive not seen at start up.

Hello, I have a dual-boot WinXP and WinME machine, when I
start up my machine I see that the post is not seeing the
dvd drive. Now when I reboot I see it, it used to work
find then all of a sudden it did not. Can anyone help me
please, THANK YOU.

snakeyes wrote:
Hello, I have a dual-boot WinXP and WinME machine, when I
start up my machine I see that the post is not seeing the
dvd drive. Now when I reboot I see it, it used to work
find then all of a sudden it did not. Can anyone help me
please, THANK YOU.

I think we had something like that a month or so ago... your DVD drive
is still busy doing it's power up stuff and doesn't answer the BIOS in
time to get enumerated the first time around... now if I could only
remember what the solution was :/


Rick

Try increasing the delay time for the HD - that may help
Try enabling the RAM count - it might also help.


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"Rick T" wrote in message
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snakeyes wrote:
Hello, I have a dual-boot WinXP and WinME machine, when I start up my
machine I see that the post is not seeing the dvd drive. Now when I
reboot I see it, it used to work find then all of a sudden it did not.
Can anyone help me please, THANK YOU.

I think we had something like that a month or so ago... your DVD drive is
still busy doing it's power up stuff and doesn't answer the BIOS in time
to get enumerated the first time around... now if I could only remember
what the solution was :/


Rick