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Here's my deal. I have a Western Digital SATA drive which I had to load the drivers before XP would detect my drive and install. Since I had this new computer it detects my cd-rw, dvd-rom, and second hdd as SCSI devices. In reality they are all IDE devices. How do I get them to have a IDE controller rather than SCSI? I can use my hdd and optical drives but I can't burn any cds with my cd-rw, it fails at something to do with SCSI controller.

Both my optical drives are Lite-on, but what the model my Hadware Manager says they are, aren't listed on Lite-on's site.

Help please!

Question: is this a nForce motherboard? as in does it use the nForce2, or nForce3 chipsets.

<edit> also have you or do you have installed Alcohol 120% </edit>

I'll just tell you my entire system specs:
Barton 2500+
Epox EP-8RDA3+ NForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset
Onboard SATA: 2x Serial ATA by Silicon Image Sil3112a
Lite-on Dvd-Rom
Lite-on Cd-rw
Maxtor IDE 7200 HDD
WD 120 GB SATA
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

Negative on the Alchohol, I don't even know what that is.
I installed the driver for SATA that came with my set of drivers for my mobo. I think it has somthing to do with that.

Alcohol wont do what hes is reporting, im an Alc beta tester and no-ones ever reported a problem like this anyway! :p

If you could tell us who ur drives are hooked up, like whats on Master and whats on Slave and on what channel... it would help us out!

My Optical drives are one IDE channel 1 and Second HDD IDE 2.
On channel 1, Dvd-rom is master, Cd-rw is slave.

This is the same setup I had on a previous computer and it worked fine.
I even used the same program to burn, Nero 6 Ultra.

SATA has it's own hookup.

Have you installed the nVidia Unified nForce drivers.... i think windows isnt detecting ur IDE channels correctly and hence recognizes them as SCSI equipment.
Try downloading them from http://www.nvidia.com and see how it goes.

I'll try reinstalling the nForce driver tonight.
The first thing I did when I got my computer up and running with XP is install:
Nvidia nForce Driver
c-Media Audio Driver
Realtek Lan Driver
And I can't remember if I installed the following:
silcon image driver (serial ATA driver).

If I needed to , how would I revert to Microsoft's IDE drivers?

i dont think ul be able to, cause XP wont let u as an IDE driver is always needed to boot windows.

The reasson i brought up Alchohol was that it creates a vertual scsi device for your dvd/cdrw. I think what has happend is that you need newer drivers for your nForce as the nForce used at one point scsi drivers for its connection. I dont remember all the specifics of it but i bet a driver update from the web will fix that.

just uninstall the nforce ide drivers and it will revert or do it manually by update driver: display a list of known: show all and under standard ide/atapi choose the standard dual channel ide controller and reboot. personally i hate the problems the nvidia sw ide driver causes with my plextor cdrw they wont play nice together.

I installed latest nVidia drivers from Epox's website for my mobo, it now detects them correctly and AND I can burn cds!

Thanks for all the replys.

thats what were here for.