my windows isnt picking up my cdroms....my BIOS does though and my computer says it might not have the right driver for the primary and secondary ultra ATA controller...im thinking its that...n e ideas? and what r the primary and secondary ultra ATA controllers n e ways? ty \n\nAdditional Details\n\nApr 16, 2006 at 8:51 am\nSystem Model \nWindows 98 SE (build 4.10.2222) HP Pavilion 04 D7213G-ABA 7905 30000RE101BERMU\nSystem Serial Number: US15054403 NA020\nEnclosure Type: Desktop \nProcessor a Main Circuit Board b \n1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP\n128 kilobyte primary memory cache\n256 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: Asus Tech A7M266-M 1.06\nBus Clock: 200 megahertz\nBIOS: Phoenix Technologies LTD 3.09 10/18/2001 \nDrives Memory Modules c,d \n35.04 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity\n5.39 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space\n\nGeneric floppy disk drive (3.5") 256 Megabytes Installed Memory\n\nSlot 'DIMM1' is Empty\nSlot 'DIMM2' has 256 MB \nLocal Drive Volumes \n\nc: (FAT32 on drive
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try switching the cable or you may not have them setup as master and slave
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hi, its easy just a piece of cake. . listen . Depends on the model but in general case here is what to do \n\nThere are 2 cables attached to cd rom. One is called the IDE ( which carries your data) . The other is Power Cable providing Power to CDROM. It will be like red , black and yellow. Pull out both the cables. CD rom is free\n\nWhen you want to attach it back. It goes from the Front. Slide it back from the front side of your PC. Your CD rom facing towards you. Now the trick is to attach both the cables. Hold the Power cable and plug it into your cdrom. if the cable is in the right positin it will plug in with ease. If its no plugging in then its the wrong position. Hold the IDE cable  and check for the slim red line on on side. Match this slim redline with RED cable on the powercable. They should be identical and parallel to each other. then insert the IDE cable. Once done . Go to the BIOS and chekc that your cd rom is detected or not. Ofcourse in the whole operation the PC should be off.\n\n IF you still have any questions you are welcome to contact me at(nashitkhan81@yahoo.com)\n\n         BBYEEEEEEE and GOOD LUCK
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www.crucial.com\nsome of the memory may be diverted over for video memory.  There may be a setting in the BIOS.
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There is a RAID controller which need to be enabled first (at the BIOS level), before Windows is able to detect it.\n\nJust goto the BIOS during startup and find the RAID options under Advanced Chipset (or other place, depending on BIOS)
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Here is the driver download page for your MoBo\n\nhttp://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P4P800S%20SE\n\nPick your driver, If you still have problems after you have installed the card driver then it might be a jumper setting problem on the Mobo, Because it seems to be a problem with quite a few Asus MoBo's.
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check if you have SATA ports on yer motherboard..nowadays motherboards are pretty much labelled or atleast the cabinets have a diagram of the motherboard with labelling.. if ya have sata go for it..(if yer budget allows)\n\nthe basic diff between ATA and SATA is the RPMs
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The Windows install disk doesn't install the drivers for the sm bus controller. For all of you that are searching for this you did NOT install your chipset drivers yet! To get any kind of decent performance out of windows you will want to be running fairly up to date drivers of everything in your computer starting with your chipset and video card
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Usually the company websites contain the drives, but it didnot help in your case.\n\nSo better lookup at http://www.bebits.com/app/1622\n\nThis should work for you, otherwise mail the Nvidia guys.\n\nHave good time
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The letters A: and B: are reserved for use by floppy drives only - however, since the drive isn't connected through the FDC, it will most likely get assigned the next regular drive letter (E: or whatever), instead of B:.  The drivers have special permissions to override the BIOS restrictions and take letter A: if it's not in use, but I'm pretty sure if you already have an A, it won't be able to take B:.
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There is a good chance that the BIOS in your PC is so old that it does not recognise the new video card. That is alway the case with new hard drives and old PC but i am unsure if this is the same with video cards.
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Do you see the drives in Bios? When your computer boots up press F2 and see if the drives are present there. If it shows up there I cant really imagine as to why your having the problems. Especially if you can boot to the operating system. I wouldn't say its the motherboard controller either for the same reason. Recheck your cables, usually the ide cables for the hard drives will be labeled HD 1 etc. There are usually two connections on an ide cable. Make sure you have the right one connected to the hard drive.
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You'll be writing the bios to a floppy disk, look on the Mfg's web site. it will not take up hard drive space (or no more than 2 megs) and just until you put it on the floppy to flash the bios
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Just check the cables of the floppy disc that is in motherboard side. I think you just missed that side.\nThank you.
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That can be a difficult spot to be in, because Plug & Play has not determined what the device is, only that is requires drivers.  \n\nThis is what I believe the previous poster was alluding to, but was not very specific about what you need to do.  Most likely this is NOT a PCI slotted device at all.  Most likely, this is a component on the motherboard itself that utilizes the PCI bus.  Therefore, if you have the CD that has your drivers on it, you may be able to find the driver it's looking for.  \n\nThis may simply be the Northbridge drivers, or something similar. (An example would be if you have an Intel chipset and it wants those drivers. These are supplied by the manufacturer of the mobo.)  Be sure to install any drivers that came with your computer on CD, especially ones that run from setup files. Those tend to "blanket" install a bundle of necessary drivers and will often fix this kind of issue.\n\nNext, look for files of the .inf type and try each to see if windows recognizes the device.  If, when you point the unrecognized device to a particular .inf file it does not recognize it as being applicable, try another one.\n\nIt's tedious, but most likely, you will fix your issue after some trial and error.  \n\nIf that fails, you can try going to your manufacturer's website and downloading any drivers you do not already see installed.\n\nGood Luck!
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The problem is from the processor! XP unfortunately has problems in recognising multiple processors, and X2 even if it's a single processor it has dual CPU so XP sees it as two of them.\nTo solve this, go to amd's website and get the lastest driver for x2, then boot xp in safe mode and install them! After this restart and boot normally!\nIt should be ok now. If you stil have problems, you haven't probably installed the s-ata drivers (though if it's a new motherboard, this action isn't required!). It's the same procedure!
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You probably need to install your motherboard AGP drivers.  SmartGart will always report 0x AGP if your motherboard AGP drivers are not installed.\n\nYou can get them from your motherboard manufacturer's website.
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The memory modules could be defective.  Try using memtest86 (link below).  Download the Bootable memtest86 CDrom then restart with cd in the drive and bios set to first try to boot from CDrom.\n\nLet it run for a while (go off and do something else) Watching it is boring.....  You should be able to see if there were any failed tests in which case the memeory is bad.\n\n**EDIT** I like to test one memory module at a time.  So, it is easier to determine which one may be causing the problem.  Sounds like one of the 128mb chips might be bad.\n\n**EDITx2** I doubt it is a frequency issue, If you install say 133MHz chip into a motherboard that uses max 100MHz the chips will be forced to run at 100MHz (just not thier full potential)  if you install a 133MHz chip into a 133MHz motherboard, then add a 100MHz chip they will be forced to run at 100MHz (the slowest one)  This is how it used to work on my older SDRAM motherboards, which i assume is what you are using now.\n\nIf the computer is booting up and going into windows but then it sounds like you are getting errors such as BLUESCREEN OF DEATH  0x039d733a  (something like that) it is most likely a faulty memory stick, where a portion of it is having READ/WRITE issues and windows is trying to use that bad portion getting errors and crashing.  If there were compatibilty issues I do not think the computer would pass the POST test (Power On Self Test)