yankinoz
11-08-2000, 04:19 AM
A little bit of history first:
I had (actually still have) and old Pentium 200 Micron PC. That came with a Teac CD-512E 12x CD-ROM. I added to that (a few years later) a CD Rewriter on the Secondary IDE controller set as slave. It was slow, but it worked. Then I replaced the CPU/mobo with a PIII 500, Aopen AX6BC-Pro. It was fast and still worked. A few months later... the CD burner died and has been sent off for a replacement (actually died before the warranty - woohoo!)
So - when I removed the burner and rebooted, windows (98SE) would not recognize the TEAC CD. The BIOS sees it just find and correctly identifies it during POST. I can use DOS driver with it just fine. I checked and it is still a master. Since I still had the burner I set it as a master and swapped them - worked fine. Note: 98SE was installed when the burner was installed on the original mobo.
In device manager the TEAC (no burner now) shows a red X and the Secondary IDE controller has a yellow ! and the properties say "This device is either not present. not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed. (Code 10) I checked for driver updates - none - I checked AOPEN's web site - their site recommended changing the bus maser setting from 'Default' to 'Both IDE channels enabled' - no change. Deleted the CD from device manager. Reboot and now NO CD devices listed. Secondary IDE still has yellow ! - delete IDE controllers from device manager and they come back the same. Unplugging the CD-ROM completely and the secondary IDE has no error. I have not updated the BIOS as AOPEN does not indicate that a BIOS update will fix this problem for sure - and I am a little leary of flashing BIOS.
Am I going crazy here or is this old CD only incompatible when it is NOT the only device on the controller? Anyone seen this B4?
I had (actually still have) and old Pentium 200 Micron PC. That came with a Teac CD-512E 12x CD-ROM. I added to that (a few years later) a CD Rewriter on the Secondary IDE controller set as slave. It was slow, but it worked. Then I replaced the CPU/mobo with a PIII 500, Aopen AX6BC-Pro. It was fast and still worked. A few months later... the CD burner died and has been sent off for a replacement (actually died before the warranty - woohoo!)
So - when I removed the burner and rebooted, windows (98SE) would not recognize the TEAC CD. The BIOS sees it just find and correctly identifies it during POST. I can use DOS driver with it just fine. I checked and it is still a master. Since I still had the burner I set it as a master and swapped them - worked fine. Note: 98SE was installed when the burner was installed on the original mobo.
In device manager the TEAC (no burner now) shows a red X and the Secondary IDE controller has a yellow ! and the properties say "This device is either not present. not working properly, or does not have all the drivers installed. (Code 10) I checked for driver updates - none - I checked AOPEN's web site - their site recommended changing the bus maser setting from 'Default' to 'Both IDE channels enabled' - no change. Deleted the CD from device manager. Reboot and now NO CD devices listed. Secondary IDE still has yellow ! - delete IDE controllers from device manager and they come back the same. Unplugging the CD-ROM completely and the secondary IDE has no error. I have not updated the BIOS as AOPEN does not indicate that a BIOS update will fix this problem for sure - and I am a little leary of flashing BIOS.
Am I going crazy here or is this old CD only incompatible when it is NOT the only device on the controller? Anyone seen this B4?