Laffin Assassin
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quote: I'm having some frustrating intermittent problems with the Philips CDD4801 drive that's in my Presario desktop. I've updated the firmware to v2.5 but the drive still is not consistently recognized when I boot my computer. Here's the deal: 1. When I restart or boot up I see a flashing vertical white rectangle in the upper right corner of my screen and then I'll get a black screen that tells me that my computer has been updated - and will show my scsi ids (hard drive, dvd drive, cd drive, etc.), but, the Philips drive is sometimes there and sometimes not. 2. Often, I'll get an inifinite loop of the above scenerio until finally, by some magic, the drive is recognized and the boot successful, or, windows gives up on trying to recognize and starts up with the drive dead. Am I having a hardware failure, or, is this software? Any insights or tips? Please, please, please. Thanks! Eric Thanks! Here it is ... Name and models of Drives E:\Compaq DVD-ROM DV 5700B (internal) F:\Philips CDD4801 (internal) G:\Iomega USB Zip Drive (external) H:\Mitsumi CR 4802TE (QueDrive) (external) I:\BackPack USB External HD (external) I'm uncertain on how to identify the Primary/Secondary Slaves What Motherboard and Operating System are you using Windows ME Pentium III processor [unsure on how to find the motherboard]
Hi Eric Sorry Mate I Was leaving your problem for stefsom to sort out but it looks like he isn't bothered and with him just saying " Configure the philips cdd4801 as master " without telling you to alter the other drives would have caused you even more problems so now I will try and help Right the First thing to try is to dissconnect ALL your External drives ie:- G:\Iomega USB Zip Drive (external) H:\Mitsumi CR 4802TE (QueDrive) (external) I:\BackPack USB External HD (external) and re-boot and see if you are still getting the same Problem and then let me know as soon as you can what is happening and we will then start to find out what is causing the conflict !!!! Laffin Assassin CD-ROM ---- Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months !!! The Definition of an Upgrade: Take old bugs out, put new ones in !!! What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them ???
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