I am getting so sick of this computer. I would consider myself to be a somewhat advanced computer user, but I just have no idea whats goin on here.
Here's the problem:
I have a Compaq S3310OM which I have 2 (IDE) Hard Drives on one IDE Channel and on the other I have had 2 (IDE) Optical Drives (a DVD Burner and the DVD-ROM Drive that came in the computer). The two optical drives worked for 1 1/2 years then all the sudden they decided to not work together. I messed around for quite some time with it trying to get them to work together with no luck. I dual boot with on being XP Pro w/ SP2 and the other being Windows 2000 PRO. Both operating systems including the BIOS will not pick up on EITHER of the drives when they are hooked up on the chain together. I went from Cable Select to choosing a master and a slave and even tried switching the IDE chains with the hard drives incase it was a Motherboard Issue, however the Hard Drives still worked fine but the optical drives wouldnt fire up. At that point I figured that it must have been something to do w/ the drive that came with the computer so I switched it out w/ a DVD-ROM that I had in another PC. Voila! This worked, or so I thought. About a week to a week and a half later that drive started acting up and would occasionaly not read discs then lead to it not working with the burner as well. So then I thought I'd try the two DVD-ROMs togehter and they would not work together either. It was this point that I went looking for firmware updates for the MOBO and I also completely formated my PC and am now running a clean install of Windows XP Pro and still, none of the drives will work together. I cant figure this out. I have tried everything that I can think of but have gotten nowhere. Hopefully someone here can help me out. What could be the possible causes of my troubles?
Thanks in Advance,
Ronny
Here's the problem:
I have a Compaq S3310OM which I have 2 (IDE) Hard Drives on one IDE Channel and on the other I have had 2 (IDE) Optical Drives (a DVD Burner and the DVD-ROM Drive that came in the computer). The two optical drives worked for 1 1/2 years then all the sudden they decided to not work together. I messed around for quite some time with it trying to get them to work together with no luck. I dual boot with on being XP Pro w/ SP2 and the other being Windows 2000 PRO. Both operating systems including the BIOS will not pick up on EITHER of the drives when they are hooked up on the chain together. I went from Cable Select to choosing a master and a slave and even tried switching the IDE chains with the hard drives incase it was a Motherboard Issue, however the Hard Drives still worked fine but the optical drives wouldnt fire up. At that point I figured that it must have been something to do w/ the drive that came with the computer so I switched it out w/ a DVD-ROM that I had in another PC. Voila! This worked, or so I thought. About a week to a week and a half later that drive started acting up and would occasionaly not read discs then lead to it not working with the burner as well. So then I thought I'd try the two DVD-ROMs togehter and they would not work together either. It was this point that I went looking for firmware updates for the MOBO and I also completely formated my PC and am now running a clean install of Windows XP Pro and still, none of the drives will work together. I cant figure this out. I have tried everything that I can think of but have gotten nowhere. Hopefully someone here can help me out. What could be the possible causes of my troubles?
Thanks in Advance,
Ronny