Been working at it 3 hours, so I'm asking for help now. I played with
the p ata and s ata settings and got my C and D drives set up on the
primary ide. But no matter what I try, I can't get the cd burner hp9100
to be recognized. I got the E drive working as the secondary master so I
know the cable is good. I've tried virtually every master slave combo
and am down to this:

I just hooked up the secondary ide to the HP drive and disconnected the
E drive altogether so it's not an issue. I tried the HP at master,
slave, and cable select setting and tried both ends of the ide cable.

I'm at my wits end. To top it off, the HP IS recognized in bios but NOT
win 98SE. I hope this is a clue for someone as to what I'm doing wrong.

I don't know if it means anything but in control panel/system it shows a
standard dual pci ide controller working fine, but a primary and
secondary ide controller single fifo are both with a yellow exclamation
point. I deleted and rebooted multiple times and that still didn't help.

A pci multimedia audio device, system management bus, and universal
serial bus also have errors but unless that has to do with the CD drive,
I don't care at this point.

Thanks for your help.

Have you installed the chipset drivers from the cdrom that came with your
motherboard? My DVD, soundcard and a host of items (including USB) are not
recognized properly by Windows on my P4PE until these are installed.

Jim

"lucky" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Z%oIb.54$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Been working at it 3 hours, so I'm asking for help now. I played with
> the p ata and s ata settings and got my C and D drives set up on the
> primary ide. But no matter what I try, I can't get the cd burner hp9100
> to be recognized. I got the E drive working as the secondary master so I
> know the cable is good. I've tried virtually every master slave combo
> and am down to this:
>
> I just hooked up the secondary ide to the HP drive and disconnected the
> E drive altogether so it's not an issue. I tried the HP at master,
> slave, and cable select setting and tried both ends of the ide cable.
>
> I'm at my wits end. To top it off, the HP IS recognized in bios but NOT
> win 98SE. I hope this is a clue for someone as to what I'm doing wrong.
>
> I don't know if it means anything but in control panel/system it shows a
> standard dual pci ide controller working fine, but a primary and
> secondary ide controller single fifo are both with a yellow exclamation
> point. I deleted and rebooted multiple times and that still didn't help.
>
> A pci multimedia audio device, system management bus, and universal
> serial bus also have errors but unless that has to do with the CD drive,
> I don't care at this point.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

Jim in Canada wrote:

> Have you installed the chipset drivers from the cdrom that came with your
> motherboard? My DVD, soundcard and a host of items (including USB) are not
> recognized properly by Windows on my P4PE until these are installed.
>
> Jim
>
>

I cannot get the cd drive to work at all. The light flashes so it's
getting power. So I can't do what you say. I'm perplexed as to why the
bios sees it but the O/S won't. I assume this means my cable is fine
and it's the only thing on that IDE cable so there are no conflicts there.

Is there something I can d/l online and run from floppy? There is
something fundamentally wrong here. Also I'm confused about the enhanced
setting vs compatible. The drives are recognized more accurately under
enhanced even with win 98se. I mean they show up on the first whereas
if it's set to compatible, it's on the third whatever that means.

After finding out the ide controllers were the problem
http://support.microsoft.com/default...11&Product=w98

I deleted the noide value mentioned there but didn't back up the
registry. Bad move. Win wouldn't boot, only did in safe mode.
Reinstalled win98se but that didn't help. Got to the noide.inf file on
disk this way: put the CD back on the primary slave and set the bios to
P ata only and compatible. So then the cd worked and I installed all the
asus stuff and it found many new devices, including all the controllers
and voila, it worked! Then I connected the 2 other HD to the secondary
and they worked too. So everything works as it should and control
panel/system is down to 2 insignificant yellow problems.

Thanks and hope no one ever has this problem!