Strange BIOS Bug [Archive]

t0rek

February 3rd, 2006, 20:01

I currently have my NEC DVDRW drive attached to the secondary IDE port instead of the primary. Why? Because my BIOS doesn't recognize the drive (maybe any DVD/CD drive or HDD) in the first IDE port, but guess what? Windows recognize the drives in the firts IDE port even when BIOS not, and even works and it's able to burn CD/DVDs there. Any ideas of WTF is happening?

GCFreak

February 5th, 2006, 09:58

Maybe your IDE Ribbon cable is faulty (OK, not faulty, but not working properly). Try replacing it and see what happens.

t0rek

February 5th, 2006, 19:18

I thought about that, but how can it be faulty if windows is able to see the drive? and not only see it, I was able to play games, brun cds/dvs (and they worked after) and read huge amounts of data from dvds without any troubles?

WhiteX

February 5th, 2006, 23:43

is it the master or the slave?
sometimes, some BIOS fails to use only a slave on the primary channel.

General Plot

February 6th, 2006, 02:18

is it the master or the slave?
sometimes, some BIOS fails to use only a slave on the primary channel.
I talked to t0rek about this on IRC, and he told me it was set as master drive by jumper on the primary IDE chain, but didn't show in the BIOS. But set as master drive on secondary it could.

t0rek

February 6th, 2006, 02:23

I talked to t0rek about this on IRC, and he told me it was set as master drive by jumper on the primary IDE chain, but didn't show in the BIOS. But set as master drive on secondary it could.

That's true

WhiteX

February 6th, 2006, 02:31

just for asking, is the first IDE channel enabled at the BIOS?
Mine is on "both", perhaps yours is on "secondary".

t0rek

February 6th, 2006, 03:25

what do you mean with what channel is enabled? I don't remember such option, gonna check it up

UPDATE: my BIOS doesn't have an option for enabling or disabling the IDE channels