I would try two things:

Set the HD and CD to "cable select" with the HD on the end connector of the
IDE cable and the CD on the other connector.
OR
Set the CD as "master" and install on the secondary IDE channel.

This should result in both drives being shown in the BIOS as well as being
able to designate the CD as the first drive for booting.

I hope this helps.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Venkat Viswanathan" <[log in to unmask]>


Hi all,

(1) o/s--win xp pro

(2)primary ide channel-----samsung hdd (master),  LG cd rom (slave)

(3)secondary ide channel----nothing connectd at all

problem:--- during post the samsung hdd and cd rom is detected ok. but when
i enter BIOS it only shows the hdd as master and slave-- "none".  secondary
ide channel "none" for both master and slave.

ide is set for "auto" detect and when i enter the "slave" of primary ide it
is set to "auto" and the options are... auto, manual, none.

the result is that when i set to "boot from cd" i end up with "Atapi cd rom
failure" and a perennially blinking cursor forcing me to power off.

how do i get my cd rom to be recognised by the BIOS? it is award bios.

any input will be gratefully accepted and I hope i can avoid the six floppy
boot disk creation .... i am not sure whether this will help at all.

thanks and good day----Venkat

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