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  1. February 26th, 2004, 10:28 AM #1
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    PC not recognising more than 4 IDE drives

    Have installed XP onto a new hard drive on my system.
    Specs as follows -
    Medion Athlon 1600+ 256Mb
    Primary HD Seagate 80Gb 7200rpm
    Slave HD Seagate 80Gb 5400rpm (partitioned into 40Gb split)
    DVD Rom
    CD RW
    Floppy

    Couldn't connect to Internet because pc tells me BIOS does not support network card. Before I reinstalled XP I had never had this issue before. Downloaded latest BIOS onto a floppy via other pc. Put disk into Medion to discover that Floppy is not being recognised. Subsequently discovered that DVD Rom is not being recognised either. Now i discover that my pc will not recognise more than four IDE devices.
    Is there a way around this?
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  2. February 26th, 2004, 10:35 AM #2
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    You only have 4 ide devices (2 hdd, cdrw, dvd) try clearing nvram (cmos) or reset defaults in bios and see what gets detected and works after that
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  3. February 26th, 2004, 11:26 AM #3
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    Tried that and nothing happened. Then disconnected slave HDD. PC now recognises DVD rom. Still no sign of floppy.
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  4. February 26th, 2004, 11:39 AM #4
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    Alright...what's the dealieo...http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=56170
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