I am working on a pc with win98, MSI mb (which I just flashed the bios on). During boot the cdrom drive is seen, and when I use a win98 startup disk the drive is seen, however windows does not see it (even in safemode it does not show up in the device manager). I have connected a new drive and that is not seen either. Presently the drive is connected to the secondary controller and set to master as it is the only drive on the secondary. I have also connected it to the primary as slave with the hd, same results. There are no drivers in the autoexec.bat. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Win98 not recognizing cdrom drive
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mudskipper
Technical User
In normal mode--
Go to your system properties (where device manager is located)
On the performance tab, does it say
(A) Your system is configured for optimal performace
(B) Drive x: is using MS-DOS compatibility mode
Also, you might need to re-install Motherboard/chipset drivers after that BIOS flash Mudskipper
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Go to your system properties (where device manager is located)
On the performance tab, does it say
(A) Your system is configured for optimal performace
(B) Drive x: is using MS-DOS compatibility mode
Also, you might need to re-install Motherboard/chipset drivers after that BIOS flash Mudskipper
___________________________________________________________________________________
Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
Accessdabbler
Technical User
If DOS sees, so should Windows. Do you have TweakUI installed? Maybe you selected the option not to show certain drive letters?
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I checked the performance and indeed it showed using a and b drives in dos. I found the drive to be infected with the magistr.b virus. Removed it. Then I removed the ide drivers and re-installed them and the drive is being seen. Thanks to all for you help. Sorry for the delayed response.
mudskipper
Technical User
Thanks for the update--Glad it is working! Mudskipper
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Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
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Groucho said it best- "A four year-old child could understand this! Quick! Run out and find me a four year-old child: I can't make heads nor tails out of this!"
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