ok, maybe this is a little off-topic, but maybe you guys can help me out some, i haven't found a solution yet, and it's a rather elusive problem it seems.
i'm having a problem with ide devices, primarily just with CD-ROM's and their counterparts. every once in a while, they have a tendency to disappear. not sure exactly why, haven't seen anything in system logs or what-not that would depict why.
i recently upgraded to a biostar m7vib from a fic az11, with a fancy new 2000+ XP. i run a ata/100 card for extra drives, but that seems to work just fine. winxp of course, and this is with a fresh install. i had a kenwood true-x 72x drive that has been acting kinda strange (doesn't always come up in post, or comes up as some freaky characters), so i thought that might be the problem, so i removed it from the system, to try that. still having problems. is this some wierd problem with xp? has anyone else had this problem?
btw, i'm also running some no-name 8x dvd, and a yamaha 20x recorder. i've had this problem for quite sometime, just thought it was the mainboard, maybe that cd. but shouldn't it go away if the cause is absent? before it seemed hardware-level, but now it doesn't seem so. help please
i'd like some insight, if anyone has any. thanks a bunch.
i suppose i should add that it's been through a few system iterations... different cd-r, no dvd, etc... had problems then too.