You might try making the CD-RW the master. I have an ACER and it will only
work on my system if it is the master drive. If this doesn't work, you may
try putting one or the other on another IDE port. Sometimes drives are not
compatible with each other and some CD-RWs seem to be pretty finicky about
their configuration.

Dennis Noble
www.hungryfireman.com

> I have recently installed an HP8200 internal CD-RW into my Gateway 366.  The
>  computer has an existing CD-ROM.
>  So, now, each are connected to the IDE connection (CD-ROM is master, CD-RW
>  is slave).
>
>  My problem is that the existing CD-ROM will now crash the computer and
force
>  a reboot each time it is accessed.  I'm assuming there is a driver that is
>  conflicting or that I didn't do something correctly.  I've been able to get
>  the CD-ROM to work by letting Windows find DMA (this seems to be the main
>  problem...Not sure what it is but it is how Windows controls memory
>  address??) available resources.  The CD-ROM will work only if there was
>  already a CD in it.  It will then crash as soon as I'm finished and open
the
>  tray.  After rebooting, Windows once again will need to find DMA for the
>  CD-ROM device.

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