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Old 21st January 2006, 19:44   #1
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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?
 
Old 21st January 2006, 20:08   #2
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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?
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Old 21st January 2006, 20:29   #3
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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
 
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Bad IDE cable, often the case. Switch cable see what happens.
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Old 21st January 2006, 20:40   #5
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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
 
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Try switching which ide port it is plugged into on the motherboard.
 
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