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Guy D,
Perhaps you should think about locating motherboard drivers. Sounds like your IDE disk controllers may not have the proper driver loaded. I have seen several machine's cd-rom disappear suddenly and after installing motherboard drivers they reappeared. Give it a try.

I'm assuming that this isn't a master/slave issue because you're leading me to beleive that this has worked before.

I wonder if just setting all of your IDE configuration to auto will makethe thing detect at post.

Other thing I can think of is that you have a bad power connector. You mention putting the HD on both primary and secondary, but I'm unsure whether you used also changed the power connector.

Good luck to you

Mark

1)Open the CMOS Control panel and check to see if the cdrom is configured.
2)Manually install the cdrom thru the add new hardware and due a force install of the cdrom,make sure that you have the correct drivers for NT to support the cdrom.

5. Also put the CD ROM (as slave)on the same cable as the HDD. CD ROM did not configure.

By the way, the CD was working on this PC previously.

The problem you have is purely in the BIOS settings:
Afer making sure of the followings:
1-IDE cable is o.k
2-Jumper settings on the CD ROM is o.k
3-Power cable is o.k
4-CD ROM drive is o.k
do the following:
1-Reset the cmos of the motherboard
2-Reconfigure your cd rom
3-If Auto detect does not work ,choose custom then cd rom.
if your bios can detect the CD ROM ,restart your NT and check to see if it can detect the CD ROM ,if not then START-SETTINGS-CONTROL PANEL-SCSI ADAPTERS-DRIVERS- and then add the driver for the CD ROM (download it from the web)
I hope this can solve your problem
Have a nice day
Ramy

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