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I just put in a Abit nf7 and 2200+ which booted and went through a lot of
loading the new drivers, etc. A lot of them couldn't load because it
couldn't find the Windows 98 disk in the drive. After it loaded all it
could, I noticed that the CD and CDWR is not even listed in the device
manager or in My Computer. They are however listed in the BIOS. I have
exclamation marks on the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers in the
manager, with no CD drives listed anywhere. I have the HD as master
strapped with a Zip drive as slave on IDE 1, and the 2 CD drives strapped
on IDE 2. There are some other devices, such as USB that are listed as
unknowns, but it looks like I can't do anything else without the CD drives
working. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
JH
 
When you started up did you use a Win98 Boot Disk, or the CD.

If you used the 3.5 Boot Disk, did you choose to start up with CD enabled?

If you swapped the Mobo and just added your HDD then the best way to go is
to use regedit and find the section called ENUM, delete this set of keys and
restart. This effectivley removes ALL devices and reinstalls from scratch.

Failing that, boot into DOS and copy the Win98 folder to a HDD ad browse to
that when required.

Using Adaptec CD burning software followed by NERO (or maybe the other way
around) can cause CDs to vanish, look on either the AHEAD NERO website or
the Adaptec/Roxio website for info on how to correct the fault.

the_gnome
 
the said:
When you started up did you use a Win98 Boot Disk, or the CD.

If you used the 3.5 Boot Disk, did you choose to start up with CD enabled?

If you swapped the Mobo and just added your HDD then the best way to go is
to use regedit and find the section called ENUM, delete this set of keys and
restart. This effectivley removes ALL devices and reinstalls from scratch.

Failing that, boot into DOS and copy the Win98 folder to a HDD ad browse to
that when required.

Using Adaptec CD burning software followed by NERO (or maybe the other way
around) can cause CDs to vanish, look on either the AHEAD NERO website or
the Adaptec/Roxio website for info on how to correct the fault.

the_gnome
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I just swapped the motherboards and rebooted. The boot sequence was set
to CD first but I didn't use the CD to boot. Should I change it back
and reboot from the CD?
Thanks
 
jeh said:
I just swapped the motherboards and rebooted. The boot sequence was set
to CD first but I didn't use the CD to boot. Should I change it back
and reboot from the CD?
Thanks
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If you can get into windows, irrelevant of the non-loaded drivers then do
the following

START>RUN>regedit

when that starts

EDIT>FIND> enum

then highlight and delete then press

F3

If you find another Enum then delete that

Then close down the Computer and restart.

If that doesn't work then you are looking at a reinstall.

This means save out all your data and then using either the Windows98 CD if
it for computers without windows or start from a Windows 98 Startup disk
(3.5) reinstall windows and all programs from scratch.

If yu can save all your data out then reformat the HDD to leave it nice and
clean.

If you have lots of data then save it into one folder, and delete the
Windows folder.

Both of these mean reinstalling all your programs.

A good hint if starting from scratch is to FDISK the drive so you have a
small data partition for saving data to it. Then if you have to go through
this again you need not worry about the data.

the_gnome
 
the gnome said:
go keys browse
If you can get into windows, irrelevant of the non-loaded drivers then do
the following

START>RUN>regedit

when that starts

EDIT>FIND> enum

then highlight and delete then press

F3

If you find another Enum then delete that

Then close down the Computer and restart.

If that doesn't work then you are looking at a reinstall.

This means save out all your data and then using either the Windows98 CD if
it for computers without windows or start from a Windows 98 Startup disk
(3.5) reinstall windows and all programs from scratch.

If yu can save all your data out then reformat the HDD to leave it nice and
clean.

If you have lots of data then save it into one folder, and delete the
Windows folder.

Both of these mean reinstalling all your programs.

A good hint if starting from scratch is to FDISK the drive so you have a
small data partition for saving data to it. Then if you have to go through
this again you need not worry about the data.

the_gnome
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Success!! I did exactly what you said earlier. Deleted enum and went
through the whole process of installing drivers, etc. I already had Win98
on the C drive so I didn't have to do that part. It went through the
process of loading drivers a lot easier, but it still didn't load any CD
controllers and some other items. So I ran Setup exe.--took a while but is
all working out pretty good now that I was able to load the Nvidia, and
video card stuff. The only thing puzzling I have now is a bright double led
light on the bottom of the board that stays on all the time, even when I
shut down. I have to turn the power off to the computer for it to go out.
Is it supposed to stay on like that?
Anyway, thanks very much for all your help.
JH
 
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