- Aug 18, 2002
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Hello,
In 'my computer' there are only hard drives showing up. In the system setup (BIOS), the two DVD drives show up correctly. Although the boot from CD option is enabled and the DVD drive is set as first boot device, it will not boot from the XP CD (it is an original, not a copy).
Any ideas? I tried swapping the IDE cables with no effect. I tried plugging in the two DVD drives on the same cable, with the two HDs on one cable. I tried plugging just one DVD by itself, and just one HD by itself on separate cables, to no effect. I tried using different power connectors also to no effect. I tried just about every combination of plugging it in as I can think of with no difference. The jumpers seem fine on each drive, but I think this is not the issue since the system setup recognizes them all properly when they are all plugged in. It seems as soon as it starts booting up it no longer sees the DVD drives.
I updated the mobo chipset drivers and it had no effect. Everything otherwise seems to work fine on the system. The system is more or less spyware and virus free, currently running Kaspersky Internet Security and Avira Anti-Vir, both latest versions and updated. There's nothing else running other than Mozilla Firefox. Previously, InCD was installed but at this time it won't even open at all.
I tried rolling back the driver but there was no previous driver installed to roll back to. The system did re-detect the DVD drives at one point, but the same problem occurred afterwards.
The motherboard is a Bio-Star GeForce 6100-M7. There is 1GB of RAM with an Athlon 64 3000+. The CPU temp seems normal, in the system BIOS it reads 33-38 degrees celsius. I haven't run a RAM test yet but the system seems perfectly stable, haven't noted any freezes or buggy behavior. The XP version is Home Edition and is updated to XP2 with the latest USB 2.0 also properly installed.
Any ideas where to start? How can I reinstall without access to the DVD drives? I don't even have any floppy disks lying around, otherwise I would have tried a boot disk with cd drivers - but I have a feeling even that wouldn't work.
What should I do?
In 'my computer' there are only hard drives showing up. In the system setup (BIOS), the two DVD drives show up correctly. Although the boot from CD option is enabled and the DVD drive is set as first boot device, it will not boot from the XP CD (it is an original, not a copy).
Any ideas? I tried swapping the IDE cables with no effect. I tried plugging in the two DVD drives on the same cable, with the two HDs on one cable. I tried plugging just one DVD by itself, and just one HD by itself on separate cables, to no effect. I tried using different power connectors also to no effect. I tried just about every combination of plugging it in as I can think of with no difference. The jumpers seem fine on each drive, but I think this is not the issue since the system setup recognizes them all properly when they are all plugged in. It seems as soon as it starts booting up it no longer sees the DVD drives.
I updated the mobo chipset drivers and it had no effect. Everything otherwise seems to work fine on the system. The system is more or less spyware and virus free, currently running Kaspersky Internet Security and Avira Anti-Vir, both latest versions and updated. There's nothing else running other than Mozilla Firefox. Previously, InCD was installed but at this time it won't even open at all.
I tried rolling back the driver but there was no previous driver installed to roll back to. The system did re-detect the DVD drives at one point, but the same problem occurred afterwards.
The motherboard is a Bio-Star GeForce 6100-M7. There is 1GB of RAM with an Athlon 64 3000+. The CPU temp seems normal, in the system BIOS it reads 33-38 degrees celsius. I haven't run a RAM test yet but the system seems perfectly stable, haven't noted any freezes or buggy behavior. The XP version is Home Edition and is updated to XP2 with the latest USB 2.0 also properly installed.
Any ideas where to start? How can I reinstall without access to the DVD drives? I don't even have any floppy disks lying around, otherwise I would have tried a boot disk with cd drivers - but I have a feeling even that wouldn't work.
What should I do?
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