Where did my IDE go?

[hisself]

I have an Epox EP-8K3A+ mb in a homebuilt system (Athlon 1.0 Gb, 768Mb PC2100 RAM).

I was using MS Streets and Trips when it quit working while looking up data on the CD. I tried to remove the CD, but the drive door will not open.

Now, I find that my secondary IDE is not registering. Neither my hard drive (secondary master) nor my CD-R (secondary slave) show up.

What happened? How do I recover (shutdown and cold boot don't help)?

Could it be a power supply problem (the drive door won't open) ??

[hisself]

Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that I am running XP Pro.

I have an Epox EP-8K3A+ mb in a homebuilt system (Athlon 1.0 Gb, 768Mb PC2100 RAM).

I was using MS Streets and Trips when it quit working while looking up data on the CD. I tried to remove the CD, but the drive door will not open.

Now, I find that my secondary IDE is not registering. Neither my hard drive (secondary master) nor my CD-R (secondary slave) show up.

What happened? How do I recover (shutdown and cold boot don't help)?

Could it be a power supply problem (the drive door won't open) ??

[NeoStarO1]

Try using a paperclip to force the CD Tray open so to get your disk out of the tray. Then reboot and see what happens. You should have a little manual eject hole in front of the CD Rom.

If that doesn't do anything then you may need to go to bois and see what was changed.

[davidamarkley]

Just a thought, do you have Administrator privileges? Hey, weirder things have happened...

Can't think of anything else but the paperclip trick mentioned above. Maybe the cd is just jammed and won't open because of it...

[Paluccie]

check to see if in the device manager there are any problems if it shows the secondary ide controller as a problem then try running the driver update and see if that helps.... if i think of anything else i'll let you know

[hisself]

Thanks for the advice, y'all. I used a paperclip to release the CD. Suddenly, the LED came back on, blinked a few times, and the tray opened.

Restarted the computer and all works perfectly! It appears that the CD got confuzled and shut itself off. Once I reset it things worked fine.

[B71655]

Check and see if you have tabs to hold in a cd if the drive is turned 90 degrees. Some machines have drives on edge and so there are tabs on the tray on most cd-roms. See if one is in the way? They might slide on your drive. Just a thought.