Hello My DVD-Rom and CD Writer are not being recognised by windows although they are detected by the Bios. When I went to Device Manager there are exclamation marks on the Primary and Secondry IDE controllers (dual fifo) and when opened it reports that the device is not working, not present or the drivers are not installed. Any ideas?

reinstalling the chipset drivers from the cd that came with the motherboard probably would doi it i would think

This may or may not fix it: Both Windows95 and 98 have a bug: Sometimes, Windows can't work out the IDE controller, and therefore ceases to use its 32-bit drivers for it. Symptoms: - CDROM drive disappears - In device manager, both "Primary IDE controller" and "Secondary IDE controller" appear with a yellow exclamation mark - In device manager under "performance", all HD's appear in compatibility mode. Solution: Click Start, then Run... , and type regedit Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS You should see a value named "NoIDE". Delete it, close regedit and reboot