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ATAPI error
Name: archna2424 Date: January 5, 2004 at 00:22:53 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: PIII/128MB
Comment:
Whenever I start my PC I get error "ATAPI Incompatible. secondary slave error, press F1 to continue" what is this error and how to remove it
Name: Spinox Date: January 5, 2004 at 02:08:40 Pacific
Reply:
Have you changed/mounted drives recently? Enter your bios and check out secondary slave drive. It might be set wrong.
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Response Number 2
Name: Krystyna Date: January 5, 2004 at 07:03:58 Pacific
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Usually that error message on the screen can be fixed by going into BIOS and setting all the IDE devices to AUTO. Pri Master = AUTO Pri Slave = AUTO Sec Master = AUTO Sec Slave = AUTO
What device is your Secondary Slave ? Is is a CDROM or HDD ? Is it working okay after you get into Windows ?
Krystyna
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Response Number 3
Name: archna2424 Date: January 8, 2004 at 09:10:04 Pacific
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Hii krystyna thanx for the reply. I have checked my bios and all settings are same as u have mentioned. yes i have removed cdrom and now only cdwriter is there my primary drive is HDD and secondary is cd writer and both of them work properly but the only thing is i have to press F1 after each reboot which is very annoying...
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Response Number 4
Name: Krystyna Date: January 9, 2004 at 04:51:41 Pacific
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You could try going to the BIOS and resetting the BIOS defaults.
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