| // This question is also in alt.comp.os.windows-xp | | I wonder what has gone wrong after installing Plextor CD-RW station. | OS: WIN XP Home. In Bios CDRW is slave and DVD is master. | | I get the following message "No driver attached to Fasttrack, Bios is | not installed" | | CD station is working sometimes OK, sometimes it doesn´t detect cd:s, | never any autoruns, DVD shows only movies, but do not read ordinary | cd:s. | | What is Fasttrack controller? | | Thank´s alot in advance | | Leo
Sounds like your motherboard has 'normal' IDE controllers and a high-speed Promise FastTrack controller... sometimes this configuration will have 4 IDE Connectors, 2 blue and 2 black; other times just 2 IDE connectors, one of each.
Your "BIOS is not installed" message is because you don't have hard disks on the connector(s) of the FastTrack chip. You should have your hard disks connected to the blue plugs on the motherboard to support the fastest transfer speeds; your CD/DVD devices won't go over UDMA 2, so put them on the black plugs. Different IDE cables are used too; the 80 wire/40 conductor usually has a blue plug on one end and should be used for your hard disks. The 40 wire/40 conductor is fine for your CD/DVD drives.
Thank´s relic You were right. DVD and CDRW go over UDMA 2 and are plugged to the blue plug and hard disk to black one. Now my question is, can I really change those without making more harm to the system? Leo
> Sounds like your motherboard has 'normal' IDE controllers and a high-speed > Promise FastTrack controller... sometimes this configuration will have 4 IDE > Connectors, 2 blue and 2 black; other times just 2 IDE connectors, one of > each.
> Your "BIOS is not installed" message is because you don't have hard disks on > the connector(s) of the FastTrack chip. You should have your hard disks > connected to the blue plugs on the motherboard to support the fastest transfer > speeds; your CD/DVD devices won't go over UDMA 2, so put them on the black > plugs. Different IDE cables are used too; the 80 wire/40 conductor usually > has a blue plug on one end and should be used for your hard disks. The 40 > wire/40 conductor is fine for your CD/DVD drives.
| Thank´s relic | You were right. DVD and CDRW go over UDMA 2 and are plugged to the | blue plug and hard disk to black one. | Now my question is, can I really change those without making more | harm to the system? | Leo
Usually, XP goes through "Found new hardware" and installs drivers. Worst case would be needing to do a re-install over the top... that would make you have to re-install the updates like SP1.
I have the same thing on my A7V board. As the blue plugs are the higher performance Promise ATA100 my hard drives are plug into them with the CD-burner,DVD and Tape drives being plugged into the black IDE channels...
I updated my Promise controller drivers to the latest I could find....
> Thank´s relic > You were right. DVD and CDRW go over UDMA 2 and are plugged to the blue plug > and hard disk to black one. > Now my question is, can I really change those without making more harm to > the system? > Leo
> > Sounds like your motherboard has 'normal' IDE controllers and a high-speed > > Promise FastTrack controller... sometimes this configuration will have 4 > IDE > > Connectors, 2 blue and 2 black; other times just 2 IDE connectors, one of > > each.
> > Your "BIOS is not installed" message is because you don't have hard disks > on > > the connector(s) of the FastTrack chip. You should have your hard disks > > connected to the blue plugs on the motherboard to support the fastest > transfer > > speeds; your CD/DVD devices won't go over UDMA 2, so put them on the black > > plugs. Different IDE cables are used too; the 80 wire/40 conductor > usually > > has a blue plug on one end and should be used for your hard disks. The 40 > > wire/40 conductor is fine for your CD/DVD drives.
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