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416941 2005-12-31 21:18:00 Hello, im currently reformatting a computer for someone its a dell dimension l866r it has win 2k pro on it and I was going to put xp home on it for them. But the first of my problems are is that it doesnt recognize the cd rom drive. All that shows up in disk drives in device manager are Iomega ZIP 100, Maxtor 52049h3

In the BIOS setting under IDE config it shows the maxtor under primeary master and the iomega is under secondary slave. prim slave and sec mas say not installed next to them. The cdrom drive is on the 2nd idecable im pretty sure. Ive changed the settings there to a couple diff and still doesnt detect the drive.

The drive gets power.

Help would be greatly appreciated.
THANKS!
mymoogoescow (9514)
416942 2005-12-31 23:49:00 might pay to check the jumper settings esp on the CD- ROM
Maybe jumper the CD-ROM as Master on the second channel , keep the iomeg as slave on the 2ndary channel
Check all connections on devices and motherboard too
KatiMike (242)
416943 2006-01-01 03:34:00 Is the CDRom recognised in my computer?
if so, does it work?
if not
disconnect the iomega from the cable
set the jumper on the cdrom to master or cable slect if you have an 80 wire cable and the bios has that option, and hook it up to the ide2 cable
start the machine
enter the bios and reset the bios to defaults

if it's still not picked up, try another 'known good' CDRom
if it's still not picked up, replace the cable
or
hook it up as slave to the hdd, make sure you change the jumper on the CDRom to slave
bartsdadhomer (80)
416944 2006-01-02 04:56:00 Thanx I feel dumb for even posting, it was the jumper I didnt think of doing that cause it woulda been too easy. LoL tnx mymoogoescow (9514)
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