Hi all, I was recently called to a friend's house to help them with a
problem they were having.  Their computer, P-100 on a VX AOpen board,
kept getting "Illegal Operation" codes followed by a really buggy
system.  Explorer.exe would not work, IE3 would not work, and the CD-ROM
would not access.
I opened the case and checked all the cables. CD-ROM on Sec., IDE, so I
slaved it to the Prim., IDE on the HDD.CD worked! But, then the A-drive
quit working??
Nothing I've tried would get the a-drive to work.  I tried three
different cable, and another "working" a-drive.  Rebooted, and the CD
isn't recognized by WIN95 (b) anymore!
Checked system device mgr., and the secondary IDE shows a conflict.
Removed and re-installed IDE HDD controllers.
And, still, no luck.  CD not recognized on sec., IDE/ A: will not read,
locks if try to access/ machine won't boot if CD slaved to Primary IDE
on HDD cable.
Afraid to reformat because I have no floppy access andno CD-ROM access.
Thoughts? it's a fairly new mobo [1 yr., old] and shouldn't be going
bad, but my next move might be a new mobo for them . . .
This problem originally started out as software related