Losing My CD-ROM

[bulldawg]

Just put together a system for a friend with a Gigabyte 7ZX1 and Athlon 900. I have been using the mobo/cpu/ram/cd for about 4 months with no problem. Then I put those items in a new case for my friend. Sometimes when I boot up, I get an error from the Phillips soundcard software saying the cd rom is not installed. Going to device manager, I see a red (!) by the cd-rom and by the Secondary IDE controller. I have reinstalled the 4 in 1's, even removed them and let Windows 98SE install it's drivers for the ide. That gave the same error. The drive is found and works fine about 4 out of 10 times. Enough rebooting and it will show up. Any ideas?

BTW, this problem appeared several days after the build. Worked fine until then.

 

[bacillus]

suggest that you 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!
let us know how you get on!