*HELP ASAP* Installed Lite-On CD-RW - now WinME doesn't even show my new CD-RW or my old DVD-ROM?

[showoff0450]

Hey,

I just got a LiteOn 24x CD-RW today, and installed it... *BOTH DRIVES ARE RECOGNIZED BY THE BIOS WHEN POSTed*

But when I go to "my computer", I only see the a drive and the hard drive... both of my disc drives have vanished!

Also, in device manager, a red x is on top of my DVD-ROM drive, and when clicked, there is a message that says "the device is not working properly because a device it depends on, Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo), has been dynamically disabled"

and the CD-RW is listed as "Secondary IDE controller" under hard disk controllers... it has a yellow exclamation point on it.

*The dvd-rom drive is master, and the cd-rw is slave*

Here's my system...

WinME
1.4 T-Bird 266fsb
384MB PC2100 DDR Crucial
20.0 WD HDD
GeForce2MX 200 AGP
SBLive! value 5.1
Affreey DVD-ROM 10x
... and my new LiteOn 24/10/40

What's going on?

 

[BagFace]

are you drives set right? Is one slaved and the other set to master? If you didnt change any setting chances are thats the problem.

 

[showoff0450]

^ for weird problem that needs to be fixed ASAP

 

[showoff0450]

bump? does anybody know what's up?

 

[Paulson]

LiteOn's drive comes with the jumper in the "slave" position, so if you forgot to change that, it could be just that.

I don't know. I have the same burner and it works just fine with my DVD...

 

[bacillus]

try lookin in the registry for noide entry.
Click Start, then Run... , and type regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS
if you should see a value named "NoIDE". Delete it, close regedit and reboot!

 

[showoff0450]

the drives are recognized in bios, just not windowsME...

can anybody offer any more help? it's gotta be software related, because bios recognizes it...

If I take one of the drives out of my system, the other drive works fine... but I want both to work at the same time for on-the-fly CD copying... who can help me out?

 

[Ph33zy]

i had this exact problem. It happen to me in win98 before. To fix it i installed my motherboard drivers... maybe try installing yours... good luck