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
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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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Usually, XP goes through "Found new hardware" and installs drivers. Worst
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I updated my Promise controller drivers to the latest I could find....
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"L E O >>>" <leo.ha...@welho.com> wrote in message
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> Thank´s relic