No A-drive, No CD-rom drive

[thuffner3]

Hello all,
I'm having trouble finding my drives. This weekend I visited a site called Driver Detective. Their software told me that 65 % of my drivers were bad or out dated. OK, so I run there driver detective, install the recommended drivers. Now I don't see a CDrom, and my A: drive is inaccessable. I'm presuming this had something to do with updating my IDE controller.
My MOBO is ECS, K7SEM V3.0c any help would be greatly appreciated as I can't even flash my bios without a floppy drive.

TIA
Neil

 

[someone16]

Probably because the drivers were installed on top of the old ones and it creates problems. If you can, go back using restore point. If it still doesn't work, format the computer.

 

[Peter]

If the floppy drive is gone during boot and/or in DOS, then it's not a driver problem. I'd rather look for unhooked or pinched cables. (Been inside the box lately?)

 

[thuffner3]

The Bios will reconize all the device types. But they don't work. The cables are fine. I've even taken them out and restarted a couple of times. Still no drives.
My primary is running in ata100 mode, the slave is at ata33 mode, and the cd-rom is on IDE-1 at ata66 mode. The A: drive does not come up under DOS.

Perplexed

Thanks
Neil

 

[Peter]

Again, if you don't see the FDD in DOS, then it's not there, physically. The drive type set correctly and the controller enabled in BIOS, the only way to "achieve" that is to have it physically disconnected in some way - be that actually disconnected, bad cable, bent pins in connectors, cable connected the wrong way round, damaged drive, bad controller on mainboard.

(The floppy isn't even an IDE device ...)

 

[thuffner3]

Yes Peter, I'm beginning to thing perhaps the controller has gotten burnt out is someway. Up to yesterday I had two HD on one controller and both were being read just fine, Then for some reason the bios would not pick up the slave drive but would see the cd-rom on IDE-1 and the primary on IDE-0.
I've taken the slave drive off IDE-0, and now only have the primary HD, and only the CD-rom on IDE-1
Still no floppy drive. I could live without the floppy provided I could get the Cd working.
Still tinkering.

Thanks
Neil