An update to my post of 20 August: >I have just upgraded my mainboard to a MSI-6561 with SiS 745 Chipset, 1.4GHz AMD >Athlon CPU, >and attached my existing hard drives complete with OS (Win98SE) and all >data and applications. The >BIOS recognizes both HDs, complete with their sizes etc. >but Windows no longer recognizes the >Secondary IDE Controller, so I can't access any >of the partitions on my second HD and of course the >drive letters have all changed ... [snip]
I have tracked down the problem to one of the CD drives, which although recognized by the BIOS/CMOS, seemed to disable whichever IDE controller it was attached to. Strange, because it gave no problems with the old motherboard and was working perfectly. Having tried in vain to solve the software driver problem in Windows, I decided to do a serious of eliminatory tests at the hardware level, and found this CD drive to be the cause of the problem. I have yet to test the rogue CD drive on another machine to see whether it's really defective (it wasn't before) or whether the new mainboard just doesn't like it. :-( Thanks Gerry for your suggestions. Virginia Da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
