Okay here's the scoop. I upgraded a few months ago to MSI K7Pro mobo for my classy Athlon. When I did I was running a 4.3 Samsung HD as Primary with a Smart & Friendly CD Racer CD as a slave. All was cool until I decided to add my 24x cdrom as a Secondary master on the seconde IDE connection on mobo. After everything was in check I booted up. It seemed to take a while to completely boot. Once Win98 booted up, I began noticing slow access. I tried to access windows explorer and it took about 30 seconds to finally open up. I did see drive D & E, D being my CDR and E the 24x cdrom. I tried using the 24x cdrom but it would not access any cd's. It would just search n search and finally just kept the system from functioning (locked up) . I had to reset. The cdrom was in perfect working order before. My CDR drive works perfectly as a slave to the master drive. So what gives?
Last night I upgraded my drive to a Maxtor 20G 7200rpm model. By the way, I thought it was great the Maxtor provided a disk that created disk imaging. Saved me from a total reinstall. Anyway I had no problem with the system after the upgrade. I thought I would try the 24x cdrom again. So, I used the 4.3 HD as a primary slave to the newly installed maxtor 20G HD (primary master) on the primary IDE connector. Then I used the Secondary IDE connector for the S&F CDR (secondary master)and the 24x cdrom (secondary slave) to that. Well I booted up the system and again it took time to boot up (it eventually did). I ran into the same problem, windows explorer took forever to access. When it did it took forever for the drives to acknowledge and access. Out of hrs fustration I removed the 24x crdom and 4.3 HD and decided to use only the Maxtor and the S&F CDR (as slave) on primary connector. I booted up and what happends the darn CDR will not acknowledge, by that I mean same effect, slow to open windows explorer and even slower to access CDR. I removed the CDR and now the system is functioning normal and as well as expected, but no cdr or cdrom connected. The bios auto feature picked them up with no problemwhenIinitially installed them and they should on POST boot up, so what is it? I even tried new ribbon cables, same effect?
So is the board's secondary IDE slot bad? Can it actually cause the cdroms to go out. I am at a lost so any advise would be appreciated. I want to take the board back for testing to the dealer I purchased from, but not before I get some advise here.
Last night I upgraded my drive to a Maxtor 20G 7200rpm model. By the way, I thought it was great the Maxtor provided a disk that created disk imaging. Saved me from a total reinstall. Anyway I had no problem with the system after the upgrade. I thought I would try the 24x cdrom again. So, I used the 4.3 HD as a primary slave to the newly installed maxtor 20G HD (primary master) on the primary IDE connector. Then I used the Secondary IDE connector for the S&F CDR (secondary master)and the 24x cdrom (secondary slave) to that. Well I booted up the system and again it took time to boot up (it eventually did). I ran into the same problem, windows explorer took forever to access. When it did it took forever for the drives to acknowledge and access. Out of hrs fustration I removed the 24x crdom and 4.3 HD and decided to use only the Maxtor and the S&F CDR (as slave) on primary connector. I booted up and what happends the darn CDR will not acknowledge, by that I mean same effect, slow to open windows explorer and even slower to access CDR. I removed the CDR and now the system is functioning normal and as well as expected, but no cdr or cdrom connected. The bios auto feature picked them up with no problemwhenIinitially installed them and they should on POST boot up, so what is it? I even tried new ribbon cables, same effect?
So is the board's secondary IDE slot bad? Can it actually cause the cdroms to go out. I am at a lost so any advise would be appreciated. I want to take the board back for testing to the dealer I purchased from, but not before I get some advise here.
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