Phillips CD-RW weird problem

[shinobi]

I hooked up my Phillips 8x/4x/32x Cd-rw to my new system and the strangest thing happens. Before booting up to windows, the drive is shown under the "Detected IDE drives" list, the setting are correct, and yet when I actually boot into windows it's like the drive isn't there all of the sudden! I go into My COmputer and all I see is D: for my CD-ROM drive and nothing else. I popped it into my old system and it worked like a charm. I also tried putting it in by itself, without the CD-ROM drive on the same IDE, but the same thing happened, it's like it disappears when in windows. My system is:

epox 8k7a mobo
1.2ghz 266fsb t-bird
256mb ddr ram by crucial
ibm 60gxp deskstar HD
fortissimo 2 sound card
windows 98 se

[MTAtech]

Since you see it in the BIOS but not in Windows, it sure sounds like a driver issue. I'd reload the driver that came with the drive.

PS
Do you see the device in device manager?

[AzKidd69]

I had a similar prob with a philips but it was makin the other CD-rom on the same cable 'disappear' after windows loaded.. ended up the prob was DMA was enabled and my old CD-rom didn't like DMA... Just an idea...
I had to disable DMA on the philips and reboot to get the CD-rom to be recognized by windows... also U sure the jumpers are right?? Just thot I would check...

[griobhta]

Have you tried booting with the windows boot disk?

If you can read both your drives then you can be sure it is a windows problem

griobhta

[rlpos]

A little more info. How do you have your system set up. What drives are on what cables and are they set as master and slave. What is the chipset

[This message has been edited by rlpos (edited 08-27-2001).]

[shinobi]

I got IDE1 (Primary) with my HD on it set as Primary Master. On IDE2 (Secondary) I got the CD-RW set as sec. master and the CD-ROM set as sec. slave.