CD Rom Probs

[Ares Dracofyre]

OK In my bios it sees my 2 CD ROm drives as 2ndary master and 2ndary slave, and then when I get into windows, it shows no CD Roms only a floppy drive and my hard drive I have:
IWILL KK266+
XP 1700+ Athlon Processor
BTC CD Burner
Generic 48x CD ROm
MAXTOR 12.3 gb hd
Generic Floppy
GF2 MX 400 AGP
DLINK 10/100 Ethernet NIC
Just installed the mobo with the stuff and and trying to make sure cdroms work to format and install xp

[mcjamesk]

boot with start up floppy and choose to boot with cd rom support that loads the drivers for cd rom

[Ares Dracofyre]

when i go into win98 to locate drivers on my cdrom the cdroms arent there, they work like they pop out and stuff they just dont show up

[Madtripper]

Get the latest drivers from the cd drive manufacturer's (both) and then consider a bios update. Also, ensure you have your drives set to the proper master/slave settings and their placement on the ide cable is correct according to those settings.

Tripper

[mcjamesk]

if it shows up in ur BIOs and ur OS is not showing it or windows does'nt pick it up and try to install drivers for it, then make sure u have plug and play enabled in ur BIOs, because if u dont then XP wont pick it up either

[InfexusBytez]

If none of that works, try switching the master/slave settings. I've had that problem before, with an LG burner. It just didn't like being set to slave, and I had to set it on Master.

[otheos]

You DO NOT need drivers for CDROM/RW.

Check if there is an autoexec.bat and/or config.sys in your root (C:\) and see if there are any lines containing mscdex.exe or atapixxx.sys or similar.

If you load CDROM drivers for DOS the CDROMs will NOT be found by W98.

[paramufay]

try this
hook both cd rom's to IDE 2
set the cdrom as master the burner as slave
go into bios make sure cdrom is selected NOT auto,not user
exit and SAVE CHANGES

win 98 will then recognize both drives and assign them a drive letter

once recognized you can load dos driver for the cd rom if you want to. the burner has no need for dos drivers.