I just finished working on an XPS T500, and I was a bit surprised to see
that it came with a Promise Controller card.  You probably would have picked
up on this, if your T450 also had one, but this was just a thought.

Since it sounds like the IDE controller isn't being properly installed, I
wonder if removing the device and letting windows redetect it would be of
any help.  You might also try running Intel's chipset driver package to see
if this perhaps will replace a missing or corrupted file.

Since it sounds like data may have become corrupted on the hard drive.  It
maybe worthwhile to run somesort of surface scan of the hard drive (for
example, the drive manufacturer's utilities that can be run from a floppy).
You'll want to back up data first, since if the drive is dying, this
sometimes finishes it off.

Hope some of this helps.

John

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Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 8:27 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Dell XPS T450 Acer CD-RW Won't Pickup


> I have a Dell Dimension XPS T450, Pentium III 450 Mhz, with 256 MB ram and
> Windows ME that won't pickup the CD-RW; an Acer 10x4x32.  This CD-RW drive
is on
> the secondary IDE connector slave; in the master is DVD drive.  The BIOS
will
> not let me selected a secondary slave device, the DVD is shown and Device
> Manager shows a yellow caution on the second IDE controller.  I cannot
install
> the Dell IDE drivers as I have on access to either CD drive.  I have
enabled
> both IDE controllers in both Windows and the BIOS.  Any ideas will be much
> appreciated.

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