Alan;
Have you gone into Bios and made sure both IDE channels are enabled?
also see if both CDs show in bios.
You could boot win98 in safe mode and see what cds show in device manager
often there are several duplicates or drives that are not installed, delete
them.
I suppose as a last resort you could use an IDE ATA100 controller card
 to run your drives, if you have a spare slot.

<>< Larry Fisk
         Fisk Computers
           Fruitvale, Idaho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan J. Galucki" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 2:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Problem with unit "seeing" CD-ROMS


> My problem:  The system suddenly stopped "seeing" the two CD drives. I
have changed connector cables with no effect. How can I determine exactly
where the problem is? The drive lights do go on upon startup as they should
so I know they have power. (Yes I have made sure all cables are securely
fastened.) I have also swapped the primary and secondary cables between the
connectors and found that then the hard drives are not seen. Seems to point
to a bad secondary connection. Is replac
> ing the motherboard my only option??

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