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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: BigEd77 on October 21, 2003, 04:33:56 PM

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: BigEd77 on October 21, 2003, 04:33:56 PM

I have a Windows 98se box.  The CD ROM Drive stopped working last week.  I purchased a new CD/RW drive and installed it.  The jumpers are  correct.  The BIOS recognizes the CD/RW as a CD/RW.  When Windows boots, there are no CD Drives in Explorer.  When I check Device Manager, there isn't a category for CD Drives.  When I boot from a floppy boot-disk, I can access the files on the CD ROM.   Any ideas?

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: Bronx1 on October 22, 2003, 03:25:41 PM

Did you try add and remove hardware. It it on the same ide channel as the old cdrom.

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: A+Net+MCP on October 23, 2003, 12:34:55 AM

You say the BIOS sees the burner, but I was wandering when the PC boots and it gives you a list of all the IDE devices does it list the burner with the Brand name and model number as it should or just CDRW? Don't know how you have the drives set up but if you have 1 hard drive (IDE1 master) and the burner and that's it the burner shound be on a separate IDE channel (IDE2) and be master if you want best performance.

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: BigEd77 on October 23, 2003, 06:35:44 AM

The burner and the hard drive are on different IDE cables.    In the BIOS setup, the IDE channels list the exact name of the burner.  Again,  I can access the burner from a DOS boot disk,  just not Windows.  I tried using Add Hardware and adding a CD ROM controller.  There are three that are native to Win98 and when I loaded two of them, I got the yellow exclaimation marks.  The third one, the "Sony" seems to have loaded fine.   But I STILL can't get Windows to see the drive.  

The difference I can see from the other Win98 machines I have is in "device manager."   On the other machines, in device manager, there is a category for CDROM.  It is missing on this box.  When I added a CD ROM controller, a CD ROM controller category appeared.  But not a CDROM category.   Wierd.

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: A+Net+MCP on October 24, 2003, 02:36:19 AM

One more thing about BIOS. Set to AUTO Detect IDE devices and set all IDE drives to DMA enabled or auto.  Make sure IDE 2 Controller is enabled. Both cables should be 80 wire also. Don't know what else say. maybe it's 98.

Title: CD ROM Not displaying
Post by: Guest on June 19, 2004, 02:20:45 PM

TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER, OPEN THE CASE AND UNPLUG YOUR CD  ROM FROM THE MOTHER BOARD AND PLUG IT BACK IN AND START YOUR COMPUTER.