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[MrHappyMonkey]

I seem to be having a problem with my SIIG ATA66 controller card. I plugged in the device and installed the drivers (running Win2k). I than powered down and plugged in the device that I need to run off of the card (a DVD drive). I than powered back up. The inital bios screen for the controller card comes up and shows the DVD drive that I am trying to run. The problem is that the DVD drive does not show up in windows. I know the DVD drive works, becuase if I hook it up to one of the onboard IDE channels, it works fine.

Is this a driver thing?

My system configs are in my sig

-Lee

 

[sohcrates]

have you checked device manager to make sure the card DID install correctly? does device manager see it?

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

Which device category would this thing be under? I didn't see it there the last time I checked... 😕


-Lee

 

[sohcrates]

ummm..should be under "ide ata/atapi controllers"

if it's not in device manager, then it's not installed correctly and your not gonna see your dvd-rom

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

Well I just downloaded the drivers from SIIG's site and went to the add new hardware thing in the control pannel. I pointed windows the the folder where I unzipped the drivers, but it said that the drivers that I specified did not match the hardware.

I have a feeling that the drivers are like half installed or something crazy like that.

Suggestions?

-Lee

 

[sohcrates]

i would shut down..take the card out..then boot up WITHOUT the card....then shut down...install card, and then on boot up it will find the card and prompt you for drivers..then you point it to the drivers you downloaded and you should be set.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

well... that worked!