secondary ide not working

[FTLOSM]

I have an old system here pent 3 450 with 512 ram, nothing fancy but want to set it up for my daughters room for kids games and whatnot.

I put a cdrom drive into it on the secondary ide as master with jumper set as master (primary has hd as master btw). when I boot up it wont even see the secondary, even removed jumper and tried as cable select on secondary (no change pc still wont see it)...

I checked the cable (tried another even), its all fine yet no go, even swapped it with another known working cable yet still the machine wont recognize the cdrom drive, also tried a different dvdrom drive, still wont see it....

I am running win 2000 pro btw, in device manager ide controllers it shows primary but not secondary, I have gone into the bios and confirmed secondary ide is all enabled, and gone back and scanned for hardware changes in device manager, just for whatever reason (even inspected pins all are fine) no matter what i plug in or what cord i use it is as if the secondary ide does not exist.

For the heck of it I put the cdrom as slave and hd as master both on the primary ide but performance wise it is very slow doing this...

I know this disc drive should be on the secondary as master or even as cs or no jumper (tried all no luck) but for whatever reason i cant get the pc to SEE the secondary, i have even gone in and chosen add hardware with the stuff plugged into secondary, confirming bios has secondary enabled, different drives and cables, yet nothing seems to work to detect what is on that secondary ide...

Just wondering if there is anything I am missing to try or look at, I guess the MB could be flaky but it seems very solid overall machine wise just this one thing having to do with the secondary ide that has me stumped.


Bill

 

[Dahak]

sounds like you checked pretty much everything, but some things that I can think of, in the bios make sure that when you checked to make sure the secondary ide controller is turned on, make sure that the dma/pio modes are set to auto(some boards you can change this), aslo check to make sure that the secondary master/slave is set to auto as well and not to none on the main bios screen.
or even try reseting the defaults incase something got changed

 

[Jiggz]

Try clearing the cmos and see if this will fix the problem. Otherwise, I would think the bios needs to be updated. Even if there is nothing connected to the secondary IDE it should still show up in the Device manager. Or it could be the driver from the mobo is not supported by W2K. Try using the original driver from the mobo.