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This concerns a Ricoh MP9120A and a new Compaq DPEN:
Placed this drive into system as master to a zip drive. BIOS would not recognize Ricoh drive. But the OS, Windows ME, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 WILL see the drive (have tried them all now), even a DOS boot disk with generic drivers WILL initialize the drive. Mind you, the BIOS doesn't see the RICOH, but does the other drive. However, my HDD activity on my system stays on and Windows is VERY slow...system hard drive is basically dead. I have tried two other known good CDROM drives and I get the same result. With the Ricoh drive stand alone, system still does not recognize drive. BIOS is generic, I cannot manually configure my IDE devices. Long story short - I have tried EVERY POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION, slave, master, stand alone, both IDE channels, tried 5 different cables, have covered EVERYTHING, I always get the same result. Here is two more kickers...The Ricoh drive is fine in two other systems, one is my old system with a VIA MVP3 chipset, and another with SIS630 chipset. BIOS recognizes the drive, system acts fine, can burn, rewrite, and watch DVDs. Secondly, I work for a VAR so I took the drive into work and placed it into an identical system...no luck, placed it into another system with the same motherboard, no luck. The chipsets of these boards is Intel 815E. I have narrowed it down to either the chipset or the motherboard itself...an incompatibility problem. Problem is I cant get ahold of another board with an Intel 815E chipset, so I can't narrow it down any further. If anyone can help me solve this problem it would be great. I have been talking to both Compaq and Ricoh, after they got the message that I new what I was doing, they have been more helpful, but still can't tackle this for me. If anyone has any suggestions let me know please, or if you have this Ricoh drive and an 815E board would be great info also. Thanks!
Placed this drive into system as master to a zip drive. BIOS would not recognize Ricoh drive. But the OS, Windows ME, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 WILL see the drive (have tried them all now), even a DOS boot disk with generic drivers WILL initialize the drive. Mind you, the BIOS doesn't see the RICOH, but does the other drive. However, my HDD activity on my system stays on and Windows is VERY slow...system hard drive is basically dead. I have tried two other known good CDROM drives and I get the same result. With the Ricoh drive stand alone, system still does not recognize drive. BIOS is generic, I cannot manually configure my IDE devices. Long story short - I have tried EVERY POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION, slave, master, stand alone, both IDE channels, tried 5 different cables, have covered EVERYTHING, I always get the same result. Here is two more kickers...The Ricoh drive is fine in two other systems, one is my old system with a VIA MVP3 chipset, and another with SIS630 chipset. BIOS recognizes the drive, system acts fine, can burn, rewrite, and watch DVDs. Secondly, I work for a VAR so I took the drive into work and placed it into an identical system...no luck, placed it into another system with the same motherboard, no luck. The chipsets of these boards is Intel 815E. I have narrowed it down to either the chipset or the motherboard itself...an incompatibility problem. Problem is I cant get ahold of another board with an Intel 815E chipset, so I can't narrow it down any further. If anyone can help me solve this problem it would be great. I have been talking to both Compaq and Ricoh, after they got the message that I new what I was doing, they have been more helpful, but still can't tackle this for me. If anyone has any suggestions let me know please, or if you have this Ricoh drive and an 815E board would be great info also. Thanks!