Hi, new guy here... I was browsing through the web to fix this problem, found many alternatives, tried a few and still got issues...
I had an old Dell Dimension 8100 with 4 IDE devices. 2 hard drives on the primary ribbon, master/slave, both 40 gig, no problems accessing any of those. 2 cd read/write drives on the secondary ribbon, master/slave. 768 megs of RAM. BIOS = A08. Windows XP SP2 Home edition.
When I boot up, I often get errors scroll past when its hitting the BIOS prior to going to the boot devices. Sometimes it will tell me the amount of RAM has changed, but in the past few months, that has gone away. Often I don't get any errors at all. Reinstalling Windows didn't affect this.
Just recently, it tells me consistently:
Secondary hard disk drive 0 not found
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found
When I go into Windoze, neither cd drive shows up in the Win Explorer. So I shutdown, started up with a new BIOS on a floppy, as was recommended on the Dell site, moving from A08 to the XP2 BIOS. No problems flashing the BIOS, so I shutdown/startup:
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found
So I F2 -> setup. Both hard drives are ok, the 1st cd drive shows up ok, but the 2nd one doesn't, its set to 'AUTO'. Save, exit...
When I go into Windoze, the first cd drive shows up in the Windoze Explorer, but the second one doesn't. Sometimes I am able to go into the Add Hardware tool in the Control Panel, sometimes it will recognize the CD drive as a new device, sometimes it doesn't know what to do with it at all.
Pressing the eject button on the first cd drive, it opens & closes just fine.
Pressing the eject button on the second cd drive, it doesn't react at all. The rare time that the drive shows up on the Win Explorer, I am able to right click on the drive letter and choose eject, so thats hopeful at least. So its getting some kind of messages sent to it, although XP doesn't know what to treat the device as.
Inside the box, I double checked the ribbons, all were connected just fine, as were the power connections. No wires handing loose, nothing out of the ordinary. The master/slave settings I double checked, these are fine too. I haven't modified anything inside the PC hardware-wise in about a year. Unless you count swabbing out dust with a q-tip.
Any ideas? Did I get the wrong BIOS version? Power issues? Maybe just assemble a new PC altogether?
Todd
activeing@rogers.com
I had an old Dell Dimension 8100 with 4 IDE devices. 2 hard drives on the primary ribbon, master/slave, both 40 gig, no problems accessing any of those. 2 cd read/write drives on the secondary ribbon, master/slave. 768 megs of RAM. BIOS = A08. Windows XP SP2 Home edition.
When I boot up, I often get errors scroll past when its hitting the BIOS prior to going to the boot devices. Sometimes it will tell me the amount of RAM has changed, but in the past few months, that has gone away. Often I don't get any errors at all. Reinstalling Windows didn't affect this.
Just recently, it tells me consistently:
Secondary hard disk drive 0 not found
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found
When I go into Windoze, neither cd drive shows up in the Win Explorer. So I shutdown, started up with a new BIOS on a floppy, as was recommended on the Dell site, moving from A08 to the XP2 BIOS. No problems flashing the BIOS, so I shutdown/startup:
Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found
So I F2 -> setup. Both hard drives are ok, the 1st cd drive shows up ok, but the 2nd one doesn't, its set to 'AUTO'. Save, exit...
When I go into Windoze, the first cd drive shows up in the Windoze Explorer, but the second one doesn't. Sometimes I am able to go into the Add Hardware tool in the Control Panel, sometimes it will recognize the CD drive as a new device, sometimes it doesn't know what to do with it at all.
Pressing the eject button on the first cd drive, it opens & closes just fine.
Pressing the eject button on the second cd drive, it doesn't react at all. The rare time that the drive shows up on the Win Explorer, I am able to right click on the drive letter and choose eject, so thats hopeful at least. So its getting some kind of messages sent to it, although XP doesn't know what to treat the device as.
Inside the box, I double checked the ribbons, all were connected just fine, as were the power connections. No wires handing loose, nothing out of the ordinary. The master/slave settings I double checked, these are fine too. I haven't modified anything inside the PC hardware-wise in about a year. Unless you count swabbing out dust with a q-tip.
Any ideas? Did I get the wrong BIOS version? Power issues? Maybe just assemble a new PC altogether?
Todd
activeing@rogers.com