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  1. July 1st, 2006, 07:59 AM #1
    idontno
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    Unhappy Cold Boot Error

    Just today when I first booted up I got this message: " Drive 5 not found: Parallel ATA, PATA-1 ( PRI IDE Slave)" This is my DVD RW drive.

    This only happens when I turn the computer off and start it up, not when I do a Restart. The DVD ROM drive works fine but I can't even get the DVD RW tray to open. I checked in Setup when booting [F2] and this drive is turned on.

    This happened after I cleaned some viruses. I used 6 different ant-virus programs in Safe Mode. And I fixed 2 entrys in HijackThis(ds3m32.dll, which was a Trogan). I checked again with antivirus and HijackThis and did a full system search and I'm totally clean now.

    Any ideas?
    If I only had a brain !!!

    Dell Dimension 8400
    Windows XP Pro SP2
    Chipset- Intel Alderwood i925XE
    Intel Pentium 4 540, 3200 MHz (4 x 800)
    1024 MB (DDR2-400 DDR2 SDRAM)
    Seagate 250 GB ST3250824AS
    PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8631
    SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616E
    Creative SB Live! 24-bit Sound Card PCI
    ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) Video Adapter
    ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 3D Accelerator
    Intel(R) 537EP V9x DF PCI Modem
    Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5750 Gigabit Ethernet Controller PCI
    15 MBp/s Cable Modem
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  2. July 1st, 2006, 10:42 AM #2
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    1 - check connections to the RW

    2 - uninstall RW drivers if they show then uninstall the RW if it shows and reboot

    3 - if 2 not possible, sghut down, disconnect the rw, restart, shut down again, reconnct the rw and boot

    see what happens then

    Might also be useful to check your bios settings


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  3. July 1st, 2006, 11:36 AM #3
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    Have you tried to download guided help 314060?

    It's a auto fix program.May help.


    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/
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  4. July 4th, 2006, 01:46 AM #4
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    Thanx, but it just stopped doing it on it's own????
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