I've got a strange problem!!!
I've an ABIT KG7 motherboard, with an Award BIOS and an IDE Pioneer DVD-116 DVD player. I'm running Windows 2000.
When the computer starts (warm and cold boot) the DVD drive is reported by the BIOS as being a RIONGER, PIONGER, RIONGEP, QUIONEER or some other combination. When this happens the drive is not accessable in Windows, and changing to the drive (D
in a DOS prompt brings the reply that it can't find the drive on the system.
However, when I pull out the drives' IDE connector, plug it back in and restart the PC the drive is correctly identified as a Pioneer and accessible and working in both DOS and Windows.
Can anyone tell me what is happening and how to get the BIOS to recognise the drive all the time?
Ray
I've an ABIT KG7 motherboard, with an Award BIOS and an IDE Pioneer DVD-116 DVD player. I'm running Windows 2000.
When the computer starts (warm and cold boot) the DVD drive is reported by the BIOS as being a RIONGER, PIONGER, RIONGEP, QUIONEER or some other combination. When this happens the drive is not accessable in Windows, and changing to the drive (D
in a DOS prompt brings the reply that it can't find the drive on the system.However, when I pull out the drives' IDE connector, plug it back in and restart the PC the drive is correctly identified as a Pioneer and accessible and working in both DOS and Windows.
Can anyone tell me what is happening and how to get the BIOS to recognise the drive all the time?
Ray