Sink your teeth into this one

[racerock]

I have two CD drives installed DVD and a CDR (Creative,Plextor) my sound cards a SB Live Plat. Here's the deal I had to reformat and reinstall ME because
of some unscrupulous going on's .......any way nuff said about that . When ever I install the software for the SB Live , not the drivers I installed them separate as part of my trouble shooting this prob......what happens is SB's software makes the Plextor drive unreconizable in My Computer .When I uninstall
the software the drive is back . The bio always see's the drive . Oh yeah the DVD drive is unaffected . I took the Plextor drive out and put it in another machine and it worked fine .......I also hooked up the DVD in place of the CDR just to make sure its not a ribbon cable or Mobo prob .

 

[TexDotCom]

Don't know if this works for WinMe, but it usually helps in Win9x:

Install the software and verify that your drive does not show up in My Computer.
Click Start, Run, type REGEDIT, then press Enter.
In Registry Editor, click Edit, Find, and type "noide" (all one word, no quotes).
Press Enter, and remove all references to "noide" in the Registry.
When finished, close Registry Editor and re-boot the computer.
Check My Computer for proper recognition of the drive


Like I said, I do not know if this will work with WinMe, but it is worth a shot. Let me know if it helps.

 

[racerock]

Hey TexDotCom thanks for the info .......I've posted this to other forums and your advice is the most viable advice I've recieved . Hope it work......I'll let you know.

 

[stukincalifornia]

It sounds like it may be an IRQ conflict. Is your CD-R on its own IDE controller? Check in the Device Manager and see what the sound card is using for IRQs and what the secondary IDE controller is using.

 

[racerock]

I just checked the IRQ's no conflicts going on..........I'm going to work I'll have to get back to this later...

 

[racerock]

I tried that registry fix......it didn't work , but in my System Inf. under Problem Devices I'm getting an error code 22 on this device
ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering........Ain't this great, this is what makes having a computer so interesting .....hahahahahaha
I think I'll reinstall windowz then before I install any of the drivers for the VIA 4in1 or the Promise chips I'll install all the SB progz and
driversI've already reverted back to the orignal bio .

 

[CodeJockey]

Is your board an A7V or an A7V133?

I wouldn't bother with the Promise drivers, and wouldn't connect anything to the Promise IDE controllers unless you need them to connect more than 4 devices or you are using an IDE RAID array for the HD.
On mine, I went so far as to disable it in the BIOS.

Try the latest BIOS, and the latest VIA 4in1s.

Also, check the Problem Logs, or it might be Fault Logs, you can find them under Tools in System Information...there might be a clue in them...

 

[racerock]

I have an A7V .....for the moment. I'm upgrading my mobo real soon(A7V133), like its in the mail system at this moment . I wanna OC with a water cooled
rig,but that another story. My IRQ's seem ok the only other thing thats sharing the same IRQ as the drive is VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller.

 

[CodeJockey]

You may need to just live without the Live software for now, and hope that the move to the new board "magically" fixes the problem.

It still sounds like an IRQ problem (maybe IRQ sharing isn't quite working, or the Plextor CDR doesn't like to share).
Doesn't installing the LiveWare stuff add a bunch of devices to Device Manager?

I know I had to move my SB Live to a different PCI slot to avoid sharing with the IDE connectors or the AGP slot. That simple move fixed a lot of problems.

 

[stukincalifornia]

I would try to remove all boards except your video card and reinstall the IDE device drivers (boot to safe mode and delete them, then reboot). See if the IDE devices work then. If so, add one board back in at a time and see which one is the problem.