Before doing anything too major, you might want to boot with a Win98 start
up disk and see if your CD drive is recognized and works under DOS.

Does your CD drive still show up in Windows Explorer?  Does it show up in
Hardware Devices?  If no to those questions, when you boot the system, can
you watch the BIOS ennumeration process and see whether it is detecting the
CD ROM when it detects the IDE devices?

John Sproule

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From: "Paul E. Mason" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 2:25 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] My CD Fails to detect the CD in it's tray


> I'm having a problem.  My IDE config looks like this:  On IDE-0 I have a
> master hard drive only; on IDE-1 I have a master hard drive and a slave
> CD.
>
> All of a sudden the other day, my CD began to fail to detect the CD in
> it's
> tray.  I tried the obvious first and put in another CD (both game
> CD's...Civilization & Emperor)...same problem.
>
> I tried to get a directory of the CD from command (DOS) mode, I get a
> drive
> not ready error (typically a missing disk)...probably not a windows driver
> (?).
>
> Ok, this is beginning to sound like a hardware problem.  I rustle around
> in
> the closet and find an old (but not too old...48x) CD and stick it
> in...exact same symptom.  I decide that because both masters are working,
> I
> could check the cable by switching the two IDE cables.  Same problem.

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