Overcoming a MAster vs slave problem Hi, I have a built-in kind of cd rom drive in my case with one ide connector cable coming out of it. If I connect the cd rom, it is connected as a slave drive, and my motherboard won't boot because a the secondary drive is a slave instead of master. Normally this would be solved by using a jumper but I can't find a jumper on the cd rom drive to change this. So how can I change this? |
With one HDD and one CD drive; master of slave does not matter. It will search for the bootable drive unless your BIOS is set to boot from CD only which is odd. 1) Do you have a non-OS CD in the CD drive? 2) What kind of OS do you have? |
Yes I also thuogth that this wouldn't give a conflict because there is one device on every IDE channel . But my system won't boot to os because of this warning There is no cd rom the cd rom drive and my os is windows 98 se |
Bad IDE cable, often the case. Switch cable see what happens. |
The cable is new and working (can see the device in bios) , but i can't change it because it is attached to the cd rom drive |
Try switching which ide port it is plugged into on the motherboard. |
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