Try BIOS update first, also download AMD chipset driver from AMD website. If you still can't get 2nd IDE to work, change the mobo. I highly recommend ASUS A7V (for stability, performance and overclock bility). Jun Qian ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Watson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:10 PM Subject: [PCBUILD] AMD Base chipset problem > Dear List > > I bought a Duron 700 and Giga-7IXE4 which have AMD 751 > north bridge and AMD 756 as south which is IDE controller and make me alot of > problem!when I install the CD rom Utility(amd chip driver)it make > Hard Drive Controllers as AMD-756 Bus Master IDE Controller V1.32 > Primary Bus master IDE Controller > Secondary Bus master IDE Controller > when I restart my computer the system halted with bad noise from my CD-ROM > (it is Acer)!!!!!!! I restart it safe mode and Disable the secondary Bus Master > > controller and with some difficulty use my CR-Rom Driver(in config.sys)to > run my cd-rom > it is very uncommon that IDE Controller Driver just support Hard Disk! > it is for 7-14-2000! > buy now my hard are working well! > > I try to reinstall AMD chip Utility but it gave me an error that it has been > installed before! > now I can use my CD-rom in Disable secondary Bus but it's speed is drooped > badly and also I can't view the Hole name of file in windows! > just the first 8 character(like DOS)!!!!!!!!!! > MY OS is win 98 SE Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://nospin.com - http://nospin.org