My cd drive did loss response/unaccessable after crash but A drive was okay.

Jun

casey marion wrote:

> Thank you Jun,
> I've had the same thing happen to my own machine and have become very
> used to using the C:format command;  I too blame a buggy OS.
> One question, did your "A" drive fail to respond during your troubles?
> I've never had this happen before and am trying to avoid buying a new
> motherboard.  First CD ROM access went; then I slave it and got it back;
> immediately after, A-access went; Now I have neither, Device Mgr., shows
> sec., IDE conflict; ----
> oh well, I'm just waiting to hear from my friend with the same
> motherboard and BIOS so we can reformat this HDD on his machine and use
> test the faulty machine;
> hope it's not the mobo!
> thanks again,
> Casey
>
> Jun Qian wrote:
> >
> > I had similar problem before my win95 crashed (Just without the CD-ROM
> > access problem).  It sounds like win95 system problem to me (not everbody
> > else fault but bill gates')
> > The best way to solve it is format C drive and do everything again.  (If you
> > can make a cd-rom boot disk and get all s/w installation cd/disks and have
> > data backup)
> > If i can think anything else, I'll tell you.
> >
> > Good luck
> >
> > casey marion wrote:
> >
> > > 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