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| 31339 | 2002-01-15 10:00:00 | Hi PC world Last October I bought my 1st PC,a 2nd hand Athlon 500.On my 2nd attempt to write a full disc backup to CDRW,the system froze & after resetting I got a 'Sec Master drive ATAPI incompatible -press F1 to resume' message.The CDRW no longer worked & was missing from the system.Since then the problem has gone from starting fine but crashing with the 'ATAPI'message upon resetting To having to press F1 every time I start.I first posted this problem back on Dec.2nd and my thanks to those people that were kind enough to respond.I have tried the suggestions of checking he jumpers & downloading critical updates but without success.I thought I had nailed the problem when I recently replaced the IDE cable & the CDRW came back to life & seemed to work OK apart from failing a Norton CD check. But at the next session the dreaded 'ATAPI' message had returned & not only was the CDRW not working but now the DVD player was missing from the system.The DVD will reappear if I restart the system but never the CDRW.Is there any way of telling if the problem is hardware or software? I recently found a similar problem on a PC help site that was fixed by changing the BIOS to Auto from CD rom. Is this something that is easy to do & more impotantly reverse if unsuccesful? I would any help whatsoever as it has now been 3 months that I have been trying to fix this problem. Cheers Craig |
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| 31340 | 2002-01-15 10:51:00 | Hello Craig, From your description, I would almost certainly say that you have an incorrect Bios setting, probably your easiest fix is to go into your bios settings, open up each page and restore it to defaults ( normally by pressing F6 or F7 then save)after you have been through them all press escape then F10 and press Y to save the changes. Depending on your make of Bios you may have the option to load Failsafe settings which will achieve the same as default settings. If for any reason this does'nt work repost again, this time give us your drive settings eg Primary master = primary slave = secondary master = etc. PS. the bios utility is normally opened by pressing delete when first booting. and the problem will almost certainly be under standard Cmos setup if you set both primary and secondary master and slave to auto it will probably fix it, but I would still do as I mention above just in case some other settings have changed. Alan |
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| 31341 | 2002-01-16 08:53:00 | Thanks for the response Alan.Unfortunately things did not go as expected. Tried F5 setup defaults but didnt seem to change any settings.Neither did F6-original values.So tried changing to Auto from cd rom on both sec master & sec slave, hit F10 to save & the system proceeded to startup without having to press F1.I noticed on the BIOS information screen though that the Cdrw wasnt showing & the DVD was still showing CDrom.Drives were also missing from 'my computer'.I thought maybe I had to restart for settings to take effect so did so.This time the screen locked up during the bootup process(I can only describe the screen as a fine grid of colours)so had to reset.System then went into Safemode, sorestarted & tried reversing the changes in the BIOS. Same thing happened so shut down and came back 1/2 hr later and the system came back to life as normal except I couldnt get into the BIOS using the delete key this time. The original settings that were in the system are Primary Master=User Primary slave=not inst. Sec.master=cdrom(cdrw) Sec.slave=cdrom (dvd). Wheredid I go wrong or is this a sign of a more serious fault? Hope you can Help. CF |
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