I have just put in a K7M ASUS motherboard, a 550 Athalon chip, Viper 770 video, and an extra cd rom drive to add to my CD-RW. The boot works fine and it recognized the Primary master and slave (hard drives) and the secondary master and slave (CD ROM drives). Once windows starts, I al of a sudden have no cd roms. They aren't in my computer and I can't seem to get them there. When Windows is installing new hardware it simply does not see the cd roms. Someone please help! if my email doesn't work use morgantn@hotmail.com

Is there a conflict in any of your IDE ports. Especially your secondary? It might not be getting installed by windows.

YES!! Ok - so I don't know too much about this stuff. When I looked in Control Panel, System, etc... there are little yellow '!'s beside the primary and the secondary but there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the Master. I don't want to bug you too much but could I get a little direction? Thanks! - TN

Look in the Registry to see if there is a NOIDE entry present. Open the Registry Editor (START-RUN-Type,Regedit-click OK). Navigate to the following Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VXD\IOS Highlight the IOS Key and look in the right pane. If you see a NOIDE entry highlight the NOIDE, go to EDIT, and select DELETE from the drop down menu. Close the Registry Editor window and Restart the computer. Providing that a hardware conflict does not currently exist, the computer should return to normal and the CD-ROMs should appear.

Thanks a lot for the help. I'm @ work right now but will give it a shot when I get home. grateful, TN