Hi Again
Its me with with yet another problem.

I have bought a brand new k7 vza mobo with a t-bird cpu and running 128 meg ram.
I installed as per book and went straight to the auto detect and it found all my drives and gave me the info on them, however, when i boot up completely , my system has no cdrom . i need this obviously to load the pcibus,keyboard,vga drivers and so on that the system detected, but cant accsess as there is no cd rom.

Apart from that everything else seems to work fine.

any clues as to what i may be missing here?

thanks

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If it aint broke , why fix it?

Why put it off tomorrow when you can put it off for good!!!

By any chance, what kind of CD-ROM is it? There are some drives which have their own 3 1/2 installation disks for just this very problem. Its usually reserved for Dos and Win95 comps.

Look at your start-up and make sure that your computer is properly checking your IDE devices. It will give you a listing of your hard drives and cd-rom, dvd, cd-rw...etc...if installed correctly.

May list the chain, such as "IDE Chain 0" or "IDE DETECTION" and will list the "Primary Master" or "Primary Slave" and "Secondary Master" or "Secondary Slave".

If you know your CD-ROM is attached as a the master drive, on the secondary chain, and its not listed when it comes up, then that's your problem. If it is, then go through "auto detection" again, save the changes then shutdown comp. Reboot and if that doesn't help, then check to make sure your Master and Slave jumper is set correctly (there should be diagrams on the drive, or downloadable on the drive manufacturers website), the IDE ribbon cable is probably alligned (there should be red lines or dots, and that side attached to the Pin 1 side), and the drive rail is connected.

If none of this works, or you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, then take it back.

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Rushton50,

I'm sure you've fixed your problem by now, but if you haven't, maybe this will help. My bios was detecting my master hard drives(2) and my Slave Zip Drive an Slave Cd-rom. But every time my cd-rom driver tried to load(i tried several different drivers) I always got the same error. Device not ready! Nothing worked until I unplugged the Cmos Battery and loaded the optimal default settings from the BIOS Setup. If you know your cables are good, power is reaching you CD-Rom, Your Cd-rom is good, the Bios detects all your drives, Then just reload all the default settings.

Hope this works for you, It did for me.
BoneDaddie.