Richardo, I do not know if it is related, but the few times I have had trouble with a CDR-W (and the last time was when I went from a Compaq Classic 166MHz to a Gateway E-4500 350MHz machine) I had to upgrade the firmware of the drive in order to get it to work properly. Have you investigated this option? Kyle >From: RICARDO J TORRES <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: [PCBUILD] CD-RW NOT WORKING >Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 14:17:47 -0400 > >Hello All, >Just put together a new system and now have an interesting problem. >New System: ABIT BX6.R.2, 400mhz Celeron, WIN95, Viper550 AGP , PCI56k >winModem, 2 IDE HD, 1 IDE CD-ROM, 1IDE CD-RW(BTC BCE 62IE), PCI >soundblaster!value. >Old System. Packardbell 150. win 95. standard everything else. >Here's the problem. I can't get the CD-RW to work on the new system. I've >installed and uninstalled it many times. It is setup as the Master on the >secondary IDE controller, with the CD-rom being the slave on the same >controller. It's the exact same set up I had on my old system and it worked > >fine. On the new system, it is not recognized as a CD-RW, only as a regular > >CD-ROM. >Any ideas, suggestions and/or explanation would be greatly appreciated. >TIA >Rick Torres > > Curious about the people moderating your > messages? Visit our staff web site: > http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html