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21st January 2006, 18:44
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|  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? |
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21st January 2006, 19:08
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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?
__________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II |
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21st January 2006, 19:29
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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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21st January 2006, 19:34
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| Bad IDE cable, often the case. Switch cable see what happens.
__________________ lazyman Opteron 165 (2) @2.85 1.42 vcore AMD Stock HSF + Chill Vent II |
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21st January 2006, 19:40
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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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23rd January 2006, 05:33
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| Try switching which ide port it is plugged into on the motherboard. |
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