Can anyone offer any advice..


Installed DVD rom, set jumper to slave and put on the same IDE cable as CDRW. Now for some reason the computer when I start up comes up with an "add new hardware wizard" saying that i have a printer. Unplugged both and tried each seperately on Master Settings and CBL Select settings. The CDRW did also work before I plugged in the DVD rom.

I am running Win XP Pro on an Abit NF7-S mobo if that helps. I have already googled and found nothing.

turn of the printer?

There is no printer connected to the computer

set both to cabel select then put each optical drive on a diff IDE channel so one on secondary and one on master

You need to set one cd rom to master and the other to slave and put them both on the same ide cable.

you sure you didn't plug the cd rom into a parallel port?

spose I should add this is not a troll, in the dark I once tried to plug the molex power connector into the bit where the ide cable should go, and one time at band camp I tried to plug an SCSI cable into an IDE drive (also dark couldn't see) so it's a genuine question :)

last edited by whoop at 20:33:36 20/Jun/05

turn of the printer?

haha