Steve does the drive always apear on start up or does
it also disapear?  And when you go into the system
properties are their any conflicts and does your cd
rom have a beginning and an ending drive letter?

Rob Racki
--- Steve Face <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I am not sure if this is a hardware or software
> problem. I have a PC with
> an Intel Pentium II 400 MHz CPU, DFI PA61 MB, 128 MB
> RAM. There is a CD ROM
> drive on the secondary IDE controller.
> The PC was running fine until all of a sudden, after
> booting up, the CD
> drive was not there. I checked the cables and made
> sure everything was
> seated. Could not get the drive to come back.
> Finally, I took out a network
> control card and the drive came back. I kept the
> network card out since it
> wasn't really necessary. Then, days later, the drive
> disappeared again. I
> replaced the drive with a new Creative 48x from
> another PC.(BTW: the old CD
> drive works fine in another PC). It still didn't
> show. I took out an ISA
> Soundblaster card and the drive appeared. Put the
> sound card back and all
> was fine. Later, it disappeared again. I replaced
> the ISA sound card with a
> PCI sound card. The CD drive was back. All along I
> have suspected a problem
> with the MB, perhaps with the ISA bridge. Then, the
> CD drive disappears
> and, on a whim, I checked the C: drive and removed
> 20 MB of files. The
> drive appears on reboot.
> I am in the process of changing the MB, but still
> wonder if the problem
> could be the hard drive. Anyone have ideas?
>
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