XP hardware Configuration?

[Bob Brodis]

Alright. Here's the problem. When I was running Windows 98 SE, I had
(physically) installed two hard drives (1) a seagate 40 GB on C:\
drive (configured as the Primary Master), and (2) a Western Digital
40GB on a removable drive (configured as the Secondary Slave). I also
had an NEC DVD+RW (configured as the Secondary Master) and a DVD set
up as the Primary Slave. This worked. I could swap disks from my
removable drive at will. They were seen by the BIOS, in the Control
Panel and in explorer.

I installed Windows XP. Now when I boot up, the BIOS sees all 4
devices, although immeadiately afterwards I get a screen that looks
like:

"IT8212 BIOS V1.2 F/W VER. 020
Copyright 2002 ITE, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Please wait for IDE scan ..


Drive 0: Not Detected
Drive 1: Not Detected
Drive 2: Not Detected
Drive 3: Not Detected

Press <ctrl-F> or <Ctrl-E> to enter Setup Utility or
Press <Esc> to continue booting ..."

Once booted and logged in, if i go to my computer I can see my
C:\Drive, my DVD-RW on D:\Drive and a vertual drive I created by clone
CD configured as (F. Notice the absence of both slave drives.

In Window 98, my next move would be to go to control
panel/system/device manager and check the properties for disk drives,
CD-Rom drives and IDE controllers.

I did the next best think in XP (Control Panel/System/Harware/Device
Manager and checked:

A) Disk drives; which shows both hard drives as working
properly (although in volumes the removable drive is listed as "Disk
1" and "Basic", after the volume lable There is no drive letter.

B) DVD/CD-Rom Drives; which shows both an NEC DVD-RW ND100A
on (D:\) and an elby DVD-Rom SCS1 which is listed in volumes as CD-
ROM1. After teh volume lable there is no drive letter.

C) IDE/ata/atap1 controllers
There seem to be three (?)
1) Primary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0/device type, auto detection is greyed out

2) Secondary IDE channel sais it's working but under
device 0 and device 1, auto detection is greyed out.

3) I then have a S.S PCI IDE controller that reports
it's working properly but has no devices attached and no
advanced settings.


D) SCSI and Raid controllers ok, I checked here and found
Windows found and ITE ATA RAid controller. I don't know where it
came from and don't care. I disabled the device (until I find out if
I'll break something without it) and rebooted.

I'm getting the same results. Fooling around with those harware
wizards has been fruitless. HELP!!


Again, my goal is to beable to see and access all my drives. Thanks.


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[Len]

Sounds to me like you have done a bit more than just install XP! Either you
have a different MB or you have changed MB settings in CMOS. The screen
your are seeing with the "IT8212..." is for an either on-board or add-on IDE
controler card! As there is nothing connected to it there are no drives for
it to detect.

This also explains where the added controler comes from in device manager!
The one that you disabled... What other settings have been changed (with
BIOS update or tampering with settings in XP) is hard to say. There are
faulty changes I could envision that could cause what your seeing to occur,
but it would totally be guess work on my part to try and determine in a
newsgroup what they are.

For your other issues there is not enough info to even make a good guess.
What you might try is deleting all HD controlers from device manager, taking
any removal drives, DVDs, CDs what ever from the devices then restart XP and
allow the system to redetect your controlers. You might also consider on
restart to enter CMOS and disable (or whatever your BIOS allows) the
additional IDE/SCSI controler if you do not intend to use it. This could be
causing some conflicts - but actually shouldn't.

Anyway, Good Luck
Len

 

[Brutuswon]

Sounds to me like you have done a bit more than just install XP! Either you
have a different MB or you have changed MB settings in CMOS. The screen
your are seeing with the "IT8212..." is for an either on-board or add-on IDE
controler card! As there is nothing connected to it there are no drives for
it to detect.

The system remains "as was" when I ran WIN98. Didn't have a RAID
device then (add-on or on-board), but DID have a removable drive and a
cd-rom.

This also explains where the added controler comes from in device manager!
The one that you disabled... What other settings have been changed (with
BIOS update or tampering with settings in XP) is hard to say. There are
faulty changes I could envision that could cause what your seeing to occur,
but it would totally be guess work on my part to try and determine in a
newsgroup what they are.

To my knowledge, I haven't changed anything in the BIOS and I can't
even find how to associate file extentions in XP no less make system
changes. It's a foreign language!

For your other issues there is not enough info to even make a good guess.
What you might try is deleting all HD controlers from device manager, taking
any removal drives, DVDs, CDs what ever from the devices then restart XP and
allow the system to redetect your controlers. You might also consider on
restart to enter CMOS and disable (or whatever your BIOS allows) the
additional IDE/SCSI controler if you do not intend to use it. This could be
causing some conflicts - but actually shouldn't.

I hope you understand that my system works now and my faith in this
operating system (bolstered by my experience with previous versions)
makes me leery of disabling anything that now works. I know what you
suggest is logical as hell as a teoubleshooting step, and I'll
probably have to do it at some point, but it's like, with so little
working, should I "fix" what does?

I'll disable the scsi controller in the BIOS and see what happens.
Thanks. Bob

Anyway, Good Luck
Len

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