Re: Just out of a sudden, my CDROM isn't detected by BIOS anymore
 

he has tried a known working rom HAve you tried failsafes yet?

Re: Just out of a sudden, my CDROM isn't detected by BIOS anymore
 

Just trying to cover all bases, I remember now that you said that you've tried another device.

Not sure where to go from here, apart playing the death march for the board.

Re: Just out of a sudden, my CDROM isn't detected by BIOS anymore
 

Not been trying failsafes just yet. I will though in a few.

Update:
Hi, just want to report that failsafes didn't help.

Re: Just out of a sudden, my CDROM isn't detected by BIOS anymore
 

Just a quick follow up on what have happened with this problem.

Even though I can't be totally sure, the current facts tells me that my IDE controller is indeed dead

I plugged in a SATA optical drive today and everything is working fine (so far)

Again, many thanks for your helpful assistance.

Best Regards
P

Re: Just out of a sudden, my CDROM isn't detected by BIOS anymore
 

well least it wasnt an expensive fix. You could buy yourself an atapi compliant PCI Ide controller and run the old optical off that and have 2 :)