[RESOLVED] BIOS won't acknowledge CD-ROM

[Jeffstar]

I was toying around with a few different OS's today (NetWare, NT Server, NT Workstation, PTS-DOS) on my Pentium 133. After installing PTS-DOS (found at www.phystechsoft.com) playing around with it, then unistalling it, my BIOS (Phoenix BIOS 4.05) no longer recognized my CD-ROM.
The CD-ROM is the master on the second IDE port and used to work just fine. Has anyone heard of anything like this before or any ideas of how to fix it? Could it be that the second IDE port has burned out? How can you tell if the IDE port is burned out?

Thanks a lot!

[stevet]

You might try connecting a hard drive to the secondary controller. If you don't have an extra hard drive, you could just try moving your hard drive from the primary to secondary controller and see if CMOS sees it.

Steve

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Altoplanos Information Systems, Inc.
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho USA
www.altoplanos.net

[alioops]

did your cd rom always show up in the bios?? there are some bios that do not recognize the cdrom when you autodetect, only when it is booting. Try connecting the cdrom to the the same cable as the hard drive and set the jumpers so it can detect as a slave and see if it will detect that way.

alicia

[Jeffstar]

I've tried moving the CD-ROM to the first IDE port as the slave (replacing a second HD in the process). The CD-ROM still wasn't recognized. I swapped out the IDE cable and the CD-ROM at seperate times, but without any success.

I'll try putting my second HD on the second IDE port and see if it's recognized there. Thanks for the advice.