Rick Glazier wrote:

> You mentioned checking the cabling, but how about the master/slave
> jumpers, resetting the BIOS HDD section to "none" (or Auto) for
> the port the CDRW is on?  I hope it would be that easy, (grin)...
>

I've tried all of the above, with no success.

> Be careful about having a "bad disk" in ANY CD-ROM(type) drive.....
>

At this point the unit held no disc.

> .
>
> Have you removed stuff, and worked from "the ground up"?

That's my next move, probably this weekend. Could it be the secondary  IDE?
I've just this moment noticed that right now Windows did not detect the
master DVD drive on this channel. This has been an on&off problem since this
situation first arose.

>          Rick
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