Phoenix BIOS & cdrom not recognized

[stuartnepomuk]

Can someone please tell me how I can get a Vectra VL400 (intel solano
815/em and phoenix bios 4.0 release 6.0) to recognize the cdrom once
more. I changed the BIOS settings last night (but not how I wanted to)
and since then it is disabled (type set to NONE), recognized neither
by Win2K which is installed on this machine, nor if I boot from a BSD
boot diskette. I've tried setting the cdrom on the secondary master to
cdrom, auto, atapi, none. The IDE controller is also unlocked. Tried
it as a slave to my hard drive on the primary controller and nothing
at all is recognized (although the long ide cable I used for this may
be suspect).

Thanks -- SM

[Quaoar]

stuartnepomuk wrote: Can someone please tell me how I can get a Vectra VL400 (intel solano 815/em and phoenix bios 4.0 release 6.0) to recognize the cdrom once more. I changed the BIOS settings last night (but not how I wanted to) and since then it is disabled (type set to NONE), recognized neither by Win2K which is installed on this machine, nor if I boot from a BSD boot diskette. I've tried setting the cdrom on the secondary master to cdrom, auto, atapi, none. The IDE controller is also unlocked. Tried it as a slave to my hard drive on the primary controller and nothing at all is recognized (although the long ide cable I used for this may be suspect). Thanks -- SM

Sounds like the CD has failed. The good news is that replacement drives
are quite inexpensive. www.newegg.com for example.

Q