I have an older Dell system (Dimension T700r). Recently, the two CD drives quit working. They don't show as being recognized by the BIOS during boot and they don't show up in Explorer once windows finishes booting. Device Manager does not list any CDROM devices.
The two drives are set up as master and slave on the IDE controller on the motherboard. Switching them to the PCI IDE controller (Ultra 66) (that the hard drive is on), they are being recognized.
In device manager the IDE controller under Hard Disk Controllers shows the dreaded Yellow Exclamation mark. It indicates that it is in conflict with a Direct Memory Access Controller. It also gives me error code 29, and indicates it needs to be corrected in the BIOS.
I have tried all sorts of things to get the IDE controller working again, but I am at my wits end.
I suspect that the IDE controller on the motherboard is toast. Any other possible fixes out there I am missing?
I am a hardware newbie, but think I am fumbling along ago by reading resource information on the web. Any feedback would be great.
The two drives are set up as master and slave on the IDE controller on the motherboard. Switching them to the PCI IDE controller (Ultra 66) (that the hard drive is on), they are being recognized.
In device manager the IDE controller under Hard Disk Controllers shows the dreaded Yellow Exclamation mark. It indicates that it is in conflict with a Direct Memory Access Controller. It also gives me error code 29, and indicates it needs to be corrected in the BIOS.
I have tried all sorts of things to get the IDE controller working again, but I am at my wits end.
I suspect that the IDE controller on the motherboard is toast. Any other possible fixes out there I am missing?
I am a hardware newbie, but think I am fumbling along ago by reading resource information on the web. Any feedback would be great.