Michelle Coelho wrote: > > The BIOS setup has provisions for 2 IDE drives, but when I set the second > to auto-detect, it can't sense the CDROm.
Uhu, quite old no? > I put the jumper in all 4 positions abd connected the CDROm to the first > IDE drive as slave to the hard disk, but in all cases the BIOS could not > find the hard disk controller. So there's a conflict, obvious, no? > The hard disk had the jumper set in the middle slot (as master, right?) The position is different from one manufacture to another; even from one serie to another! Are you sure the CD-ROM doesn't need a second jumper to be set in slave mode? Is your HD (alone) well auto-recognized by the bios? JY -- "Jean-Yves BARBIER" [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Les choses ne sont pas toujours ce que l'on voudrait qu'elles soient qu'elles fussent..." P. DAC Boycott Intel, watch: http://www.bigbrotherinside.com "If you need N components to build your board, you'll ALWAYS have N-1 in stock" Murphy's law
