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THis is my dilemma...any help would be greatly appreciated.
the hardware:
an old (1999) E-Machine... i know, i know..lol
e400i3 (Celeron 400Mhz)
192 Megs SDRAM
13 GIG HD (IDE) - as the only device on IDE controller 1
SONY CRX185E1 CD-RW set as master on IDE ctrl 2
Samsung 50x CD-ROM set as slave on IDE ctrl 2
this is the where the fun starts...
i just performed a clean install of Windows 2K with SP2 and all the updates off of Windows update page... good to go so far..
everything was recognized with PnP.. it even detected the Sony cd-rw as the correct model..so no problem thus far..
checked compatibility of this drive on ROxio's site... it says its good to go.. with 5.02 or later ECDC Platinum or Standard.
so as soon as i go to install ECDC Platinum...it pops up with the error msg: "NO compatible recorder device was found or present.. Would you like to install Direct CD?" (this is not verbatim...but this is what i remember the msg to be)
so, i check under device manager..everything looks good there too.. it recognizes it as the SOny CRX185E1..no problems found with this device... drivers were installed when W2K recognized it as new hardware.. so its their drivers ...
i checked to see if autoinsert was enabled..it was, so i disabled it..rebooted, tried an install again... same thing...
i then retrieved update from Roxio's site..to upgrade to 5.1x... same exact thing again.. still does not recognize it.
finally, i tried Nero and Record Now Max...both come up with the same thing.....
so- what in the heck is up with this?? it's like the software is pulling up erroneous information.. (possibly only seeing it as a cd-rom as opposed to a cd-rw drive??) thats the only thing i can think of... because all burner software reports the same thing..
oh, also, i did upgrade the bios to the last known version for the Florida series MOBO that emachines used at that time...
any thoughts or ideas??? maybe the cd-burner needs to be a stand-alone on the 2nd IDE controller???
thanks in advanced everyone!!!
~n
the hardware:
an old (1999) E-Machine... i know, i know..lol
e400i3 (Celeron 400Mhz)
192 Megs SDRAM
13 GIG HD (IDE) - as the only device on IDE controller 1
SONY CRX185E1 CD-RW set as master on IDE ctrl 2
Samsung 50x CD-ROM set as slave on IDE ctrl 2
this is the where the fun starts...
i just performed a clean install of Windows 2K with SP2 and all the updates off of Windows update page... good to go so far..
everything was recognized with PnP.. it even detected the Sony cd-rw as the correct model..so no problem thus far..
checked compatibility of this drive on ROxio's site... it says its good to go.. with 5.02 or later ECDC Platinum or Standard.
so as soon as i go to install ECDC Platinum...it pops up with the error msg: "NO compatible recorder device was found or present.. Would you like to install Direct CD?" (this is not verbatim...but this is what i remember the msg to be)
so, i check under device manager..everything looks good there too.. it recognizes it as the SOny CRX185E1..no problems found with this device... drivers were installed when W2K recognized it as new hardware.. so its their drivers ...
i checked to see if autoinsert was enabled..it was, so i disabled it..rebooted, tried an install again... same thing...
i then retrieved update from Roxio's site..to upgrade to 5.1x... same exact thing again.. still does not recognize it.
finally, i tried Nero and Record Now Max...both come up with the same thing.....
so- what in the heck is up with this?? it's like the software is pulling up erroneous information.. (possibly only seeing it as a cd-rom as opposed to a cd-rw drive??) thats the only thing i can think of... because all burner software reports the same thing..
oh, also, i did upgrade the bios to the last known version for the Florida series MOBO that emachines used at that time...
any thoughts or ideas??? maybe the cd-burner needs to be a stand-alone on the 2nd IDE controller???
thanks in advanced everyone!!!
~n