Now cdrom not recognized, what did I do?

[montag]

Hi all, having trouble with my HP pc. Installed and unistalled (conflicts) Nero 5.5 over the weekend and now my cdrom (not writer) is not being recognized in bios or windows. Device manager says there is a conflict with my seconary ide. cdrom is secondary master and zip is slave. The zip drive shows up in bios but not in windows. I've updated drivers, no luck. I've reformatted hd, no luck. Any idea what happened?

 

[Mitzi]

Which Operating System? What hardware specifications do you have?

Is your CDROM detected by the BIOS? Does your CD Writer appear okay?

Try deleting the secondary IDE controller from within Windows device manager, reboot and see if Windows re-detects and sets up the secondary controller correctly.

Other than this, really need more info before can help any more.

By the way, welcome to the forums

 

[montag]

Thanks for the response Mitzi. I have win98se on a PII 400mhz, 12.7gb and 60gb hd's. The external cdwriter (hp7200) is recognized in windows and works fine. The factory original internal cdrom is not recognized in bios and windows.

"Try deleting the secondary IDE controller from within Windows device manager, reboot and see if Windows re-detects and sets up the secondary controller correctly."

What if windows does not re-detect it? Am I screwed?

thanks for your help,
Jim

 

[Mitzi]

Its a bit worrying that its not detected in the BIOS - have you been playing around inside the machine recently? Perhaps its more a loose IDE cable issue rather than a bad driver causing the problems.

What if windows does not re-detect it? Am I screwed?

In the worse case scenario you'll have to sell your house and give up your job but I wouldn't call that screwed Nah, only kiddin' - It wouldn't really cause any big problems - if its working Windows will redetect it, if its not working then you are no worse position anyway.

My advice would be...

1). Take case off your machine and check the IDE cable coming from your CDROM/ZIP is still connected to the motherboard.
2). If that doesn't solve the problem delete the controller from device manager and let Windows redetect it.

LMK how you get on. Good luck!

Edit : Just re-read your original post and you say that the Zip drive is detected in the BIOS, so therefore the IDE cable must be connected correctly to the motherboard - make sure the IDE cable and power cable are firmly inserted to the back of the CDROM

 

[montag]

Yeah, I did some "playing" around inside about a week ago so I will check the ide connection to the cdrom. If that is the problem, I wonder why it took a week to show itself?
Anyhow, thanks alot for your help.