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Ok so after a few busy months away from MAME, I decided to look at this hard drive again. I simply removed the jumper from the slave drive altogether and now it works perfectly. I guess technically it's not set as 'slave' anymore, but it works fine now and before it kept disappearing. Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Ok, so I tried Brian Hoffman's suggestion, and I also tried Chriss' suggestion to run chkdks, neither of those helped. Next on my plate is I am going to try Chriss' idea of making the Maxtor a master as well, and if that doesn't work I am going to try and find updated chipset drivers. By 'Secondary Master' did you mean make both drives 'Master'? I should mention I suppose that both drives are on the same ribbon cable, with the master plugged in on the end of the cable, and the slave plugged in to the plug halfway down the length of the same ribbon. That is the correct way to do it, right? Both drives are IDE, i'm running XP SP2. More ideas? I'd rather not wipe windows, there must be an easy fix for this considiering the drive pops up and works perfectly the moment I pick it in the 'Add New Hardware' dialog. EDIT: So a few more things to add to the symptom list. - Scanning for drives with Maxtor's Seatools also gets the drive to popup in My Computer. - If I get the drive to show up with Add New Hardware or Seatools, then restart, the drive STAYS. - If I Turn Off, the drive goes away.

Help! I just swapped a 120gb Maxtor internal hard drive into my Mame PC from an older PC. On this hard drive is a lot of data that I would rather not lose. I connected the new drive as a slave to my WD master drive, taking care to use the correct jumper settings on both drives. The hard drive popped up in 'My Computer' after the first boot up, but when I turn the PC off and then back on again, the drive ("Local Disk E" on my computer), was gone. If I open Control Panel--> Add New Hardware-->Already connected, and I click the Maxtor on the list of components, then close the 'Add New Hardware' dialog box, the drive pops up again, functioning perfectly. Turn the PC off, then back on again, and the drive is gone. This same cycle occurs every time I turn the PC off now. How do I get the drive to stay permanently in My Computer?

Thanks guys, I'm going to see if Andy can lend a hand.

Thanks, I hope somebody here knows a solution, I just dropped $200 on an ArcadeVGA, Ipac and Jpac for my cabinet, I'd rather not leave the back of the cabinet off permanently with the monitor exposed just so I can adjust the v-hold dial every time the cabinet is used; I have children and old monitors like that are a safety risk. Is there a mame and monitor friendly resolution that I can set windows to? I guess that would eliminate the problem, but It seems most resolutions that I pick from the little icon in the system tray make the monitor go crazy, and unfocusable

OK after a day of fooling around with my new ArcadeVGA in my cabinet, I've found that if I configure MAME to have 'switchres' on, the monitor's vertical hold goes out the moment I start a MAME rom within GameEX. I have to manually adjust my arcade monitor's V-hold know, which is a scary experience considering it's an original RCA/Wells Gardner in a 1985 Gauntlet II cabinet. I'm using Mame32, latest version, ddraw on, switchres on, direct3d off, hardware stretch off. I can run games with switchres off, and the vertical hold issue never arises, but the games look so small and crappy when I do that. Is the issue with my old monitor, or my settings? It seems If I adjust the V-hold dial so that MAME games look right, the V-hold looks awful the moment I get back to GameEX or windows. I'd rather not have to adjust it every time. I've searched the forum for a while now I see similar problems but nothing that I can really relate to. Help?

It works perfectly, thanks! That was a really good idea. One question for you -- the bat files only execute in GameEx if their filename has no spaces -- for example, mk.bat will open, but Mortal Kombat.bat won't open at all. Is using underscores my only option?

Well, clrmamepro won't even accept mame v55 as a valid exe apparently. The command -listxml isn't possible in v55. Are early versions of mame like v55 not compatible with GameEx? If they're ot then I don't want to waste my time messing with over the next few days. At this point it seems v55 (or another early version) is the only way I'll be able to play MK or NBAJam w/out forking over the money for a new MAME PC. Is anybody running an early version of MAME in GameEx?

Hey all, I'm new to GameEx, I just downloaded and configured it on my MAME machine over the past few days. GameEx works great with Mame32 v.95, but because my rig is older, Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam don't run well at all. I've found (with help) that running those games in Mame v.55 works flawlessly. However, when I set Mame v.55 as my mame emulator in GameEx instead of Mame32 v.95, all my roms that previously showed up in my GameEx mame list now disappear when I update my list. Any ideas? If v.55 (or another old version of mame) is my only option to get all the game that I like running, I'd like it to be my mame emulator in GameEx, because I want GameEx to be my primary frontend on this MAME machine.