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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5404)	1/21/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

>> Dead CD Sorry, ZP, you may have tried this, but just in case. BIOSes vary in their reflection of CD roms. In my house it's about 50-50 whether the bios acknowledges a CD or not, even when properly installed. If you haven't actually tried the DRIVE in those various jumper configurations, you haven't ruled out one of them working. I seem to recall that you did try the drive in one of the early configurations, but what about the variations? This is Win 95, right? If there isn't a win95 driver you can use a dos driver, but you may have to load it in config.sys along with MSCDEX in autoexec.bat and all that drill. One last thing. On the Intel web page somewhere is an update for the Win 95 config tables for chipsets that came out after Win 95. Win 95 has trouble recognizing the IDE ports as presented by the later chipsets, which will prevent Win 95 from detecting the CD and loading the virtual driver for it. Ok, here's the last thing <g>. Build a DOS bootable floppy with the driver and mscdex configured to access the cd. Then you can check the CD from a floppy boot with no harddrive in sight. Sorry this is disorganized but I'm in a rush to catch up here. Good luck Spots

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (5404)	1/21/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: Nazbuster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP. SUCCESS!!! I had a candidate (I'm a recruiter..) tell me exactly what to look for. First of all, I had a bent pin on my floppy drive which may have contributed, but I don't think so. Here's the skinny: When you first run the auto-detect in the BIOS to find your hard drive, you usually respond such that the slave on the primary IDE, plus both master and slave on the secondary IDE are marked NONE. This causes the display in your basic BIOS screen (the one right after the smart-menu) to mark the corresponding lines NONE. The problem is that the Auto-detect will not see a CDROM, and when the primary BIOS screen is marked NONE, it DOESN'T TRY TO FIND A CDROM!!! Go back and mark the appropriate entry (slave on IDE1, or master on IDE2) to AUTO and you'll get your CDROM!