My CD/DVD RW cannot be found - ONLY - when my computer is connected to the
Broadband modem. When I try to boot up, the bios window comes up and says:
"Secondary drive 0 not found. Strike F1 to continue. Strike F2 to run the
set up utility." If I use the F1 option, the boot up will continue but takes
forever and when it finally is booted up, the CD/DVD drive does not show up
and does not work.

However, if I unplug the modem from the computer before I boot up, it does
just fine and the CD/DVD drive shows up and works just fine. So strange.

Any ideas anyone?

"Magsmom" <Magsmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:022CC46A-1340-4C85-95A7-068BF60C2AEF@microsoft.com...
> My CD/DVD RW cannot be found - ONLY - when my computer is connected to the
> Broadband modem. When I try to boot up, the bios window comes up and
> says:
> "Secondary drive 0 not found. Strike F1 to continue. Strike F2 to run
> the
> set up utility." If I use the F1 option, the boot up will continue but
> takes
> forever and when it finally is booted up, the CD/DVD drive does not show
> up
> and does not work.
>
> However, if I unplug the modem from the computer before I boot up, it does
> just fine and the CD/DVD drive shows up and works just fine. So strange.
>
> Any ideas anyone?

Seeing that the problem occurs *before* Windows even starts, this is not a
Windows problem. I suggest you repost it in a hardware newsgroup.

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:02:02 -0800, Magsmom
<Magsmom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My CD/DVD RW cannot be found - ONLY - when my computer is connected to the
>Broadband modem. When I try to boot up, the bios window comes up and says:
>"Secondary drive 0 not found. Strike F1 to continue. Strike F2 to run the
>set up utility." If I use the F1 option, the boot up will continue but takes
>forever and when it finally is booted up, the CD/DVD drive does not show up
>and does not work.
>
>However, if I unplug the modem from the computer before I boot up, it does
>just fine and the CD/DVD drive shows up and works just fine. So strange.
>
>Any ideas anyone?

Has this started suddenly , or since the modem was installed ?