Okay, I have a CD rom that will not get recongnised in WinME but it will show up during bootup and in dos using a bootdisk. In the device manager, I can see a yellow (!) in the Primary IDE Controller and No CDrom is listed. I have tried downloading new drivers with no luck and I am now clueless.

hello try removeing problem device from device manager and reboot. post back if it had no efect. ••• Resistance is invigorating! •••kill spyware

Yeah, I tried that, I also tried reading the chipset info on the motherboard and manually finding drivers on the net without success. Are their Generic Drivers that will work. Maybe I am trying too hard.

Bud Wise, What model no. is the motherboard, if you know? What are the chips name & number? What does it list, for the _____Bus Master IDE Controller, by the primary & secondary controllers? Also, in Device Manager, at " +System devices", are there things listed, like VIA___, Ali___, AMD___, ect. Have you tried, to boot into safe mode, and delete the controllers there? Just curious. CrazyOne

How many IDE devices do you have & how are they setup (master/slave configuration)?

hello to find out what chip set you have d/l adia32 its free and will tell you which one you have. ••• Resistance is invigorating! •••kill spyware

Motherboard is VA-503+ Chipsets that I see have this on it VT82C598MVP and VT82CS86B I have two drives on the primary (HD master and CDrom as a secondary, CDrom doesn't work using the secondary and like I said, they show up in both bios/bootup and in dos. System Resources are fine, some Via but mostly generic windows. Yes, I tried both deleting the drivers and uninstalling them, even searching for better ones and they just come back with the ones that don't work.