Hi Barry, interesting that you should mention ide controllers. When I am checking controllers in device manager There are two( ! ) marks next to primary and secondary IDE controller( dual fifo). When I check these out under problem components it says" Device has a problem, Code=10(0xA)." Then it says device not present,not working or does not have all the drivers installed. Then there is a list of items starting with Registry Key. The next item is" Alloc. resources---Logical resources-0". There is an option in a driver window to look for drivers and update. Have gone through this procedure and it says the drivers are installed and to use as is. These drivers are for the hard drive I think. Does this affect the CD-Rom? I have just about reached my limitations in computer literacy. BTW jumpers have not been changed. Paul Barry Thompson <barrystv@xxxxxxx> wrote: How is it configured? Maybe you have the jumper set wrong or ide is not configure right. Check ide controllers in device manager. barrystv@xxxxxxx Barrys TV Ottawa Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul" To: Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:49 PM Subject: [TechAssist] CD-Rom > Computer dose not recognize the CD-ROM. Have tried disconnecting the CD-Rom and turning the computer on then off and reconnect to see if it would recognize it and there is no evidence that it is in the computer at all. Can' t un-install because there is nothing to un-install. CD-Rom is running when a disc is put in.I do not have the installation disc. But it probably wouldn't install it anyway. It was working fine until I tried to run automan. Had problems and have not been able to use CD-Rom since. Had a computer tech try to get automan to run and he removed some things. Don't know if this caused a problem or not. Any ideas beside buying a new one ? Paul > > Paul ,B Central TV&Video Grover Beach Ca. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > Lost Password: > http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". > Email Archives: > //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ Paul ,B Central TV&Video Grover Beach Ca. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/