CD Rom not available after driver install

[ReLiVaNt]

Running Windows 98 AMD-K6tm
Acer Computer

The Cd Rom will not appear on the computer. I tried reinstalling the CD Rom drivers and restarting the computer when asked. Upon restart there's still no CD Rom drive.
What could be the problem?
Thanks in advance!

 

[jazzgirl]

Did you check in the BIOS to make sure the drive was auto-detected? Try rebooting and go into your BIOS and make sure all drives are set to auto-detect. Save and restart and see if it picks it up then.

 

[TekTippy4U]

try jazzgirl's first

Right click My Computer >> Performance Tab - are any drives listed as running in MSDOS Mode? if so continue below;

Reboot in Safe Mode (have mobo CDROM and 98 CD handy) - and remove the Busmaster IDE Controller in Device Manager and reboot.

Also - see this and use it if above doesn't do it;

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=192841

Also - one last try - (also available on 98 CDROM in \mtsutil folder) is this fix for the IDE Real Mode IOS mixup

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q151911/

TT4U

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[ReLiVaNt]

thank you for your input and i will try it and see if it works.
thanks again!!