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I have a soltek SL-75DRV5 with a amd 1900 xp.When trying to boot the
system reports it can't find any ide devices and using the win 98 start
diskette it says cd drivers not installed as no device was detected.It's
a brand new hard drive in that's why I use the start disk.
The mobo has been in for repairs as it broke down on me when the old
poversupply busted.everything seems to work alright except for the cd
and dvd thing and I have no idea of how to fix it.Never happened to me
before.does anyone know better?
any ideas will be greatly appreciated-
regards al
 
I have a soltek SL-75DRV5 with a amd 1900 xp.When trying to boot the
system reports it can't find any ide devices and using the win 98 start
diskette it says cd drivers not installed as no device was detected.It's
a brand new hard drive in that's why I use the start disk.
The mobo has been in for repairs as it broke down on me when the old
poversupply busted.everything seems to work alright except for the cd
and dvd thing and I have no idea of how to fix it.Never happened to me
before.does anyone know better?
any ideas will be greatly appreciated-
regards al
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Well, you should at least go into the bios and look at what it says
about your drives. Mode should be set to auto, for instance.


ancra
 
Ancra said:
Well, you should at least go into the bios and look at what it says
about your drives. Mode should be set to auto, for instance.


ancra
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well I can at least tell you that I been in to the bios and the settings
right but the cd is not recogniced anyway.The jumpers right it wont even
work with only the cd at ide 2 set as master.
sorry for not giving them obvius details in my request.
al
 
well I can at least tell you that I been in to the bios and the settings
right but the cd is not recogniced anyway.The jumpers right it wont even
work with only the cd at ide 2 set as master.
sorry for not giving them obvius details in my request.
al
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Actually, I find windows sometimes works better if the optical drive channel
is set to "none" in BIOS instead of auto or user-defined or whatever.
Sounds nuts, but windows finds the drive and uses it anyway. The problem is
with DOS level access to the drive, though. Most CD-Drives should be
detected by the win98 boot disk. If the CD-Drive is newer, it may be one
that windows 98 doesn't have a generic driver for. See if you can download
DOS driver for that CD-Rom from the web site of whoever made the drive. Try
installing the DOS driver on a separate boot disk and see if you can access
it from DOS (D:, E:?) that way. If not, try swapping in a different CD-Rom
drive that is known to be good OR test the same CD-Rom drive in a different
system to make sure it's still working.

I suspect the motherboard might be damaged though. -Dave
 
Dave said:
Actually, I find windows sometimes works better if the optical drive channel
is set to "none" in BIOS instead of auto or user-defined or whatever.
Sounds nuts, but windows finds the drive and uses it anyway. The problem is
with DOS level access to the drive, though. Most CD-Drives should be
detected by the win98 boot disk. If the CD-Drive is newer, it may be one
that windows 98 doesn't have a generic driver for. See if you can download
DOS driver for that CD-Rom from the web site of whoever made the drive. Try
installing the DOS driver on a separate boot disk and see if you can access
it from DOS (D:, E:?) that way. If not, try swapping in a different CD-Rom
drive that is known to be good OR test the same CD-Rom drive in a different
system to make sure it's still working.

I suspect the motherboard might be damaged though. -Dave
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Cheers Dave and thanks for the inf.I going to try that and see what's
going to happen but I have the same feeling about the motherboard as
you.They never checked it out properly when they repaired it.It's a pity
though.So much work and waiting for nothing.

al
 
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