Please Help Me Find CD Drive With New MOBO

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I have bought a new MOBO, and have installed it. It won't recognize
my CD drive.

I went into BIOS and set everything as best as I could, since these
3rd world manuals are so vague and this one says nothing as to how
things should be set. Both HDs and the CD are recognized and are in
their proper master/slave configurations.

When I start up W98, it sees all these new controllers for the new
board and automatically wants to add drivers, which of course I only
have on the CD that came with the board, however Windows isn't seeing
my CD-rom.

BIOS does, Windows doesn't. It's not in the system devices either.
So I can't run the install drivers program on the CD. When I try add
new hardware I don't see anything there for CD-rom. There is
something there for a CD controller.

How can I get my CD-rom to be recognized? Windows always wants you
to put the Win98 cd in to do any additions of drivers, which I imagine
I would have to do to add the CD-rom. Sounds like a catch 22.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.
 
I have bought a new MOBO, and have installed it. It won't recognize
my CD drive.

I went into BIOS and set everything as best as I could, since these
3rd world manuals are so vague and this one says nothing as to how
things should be set. Both HDs and the CD are recognized and are in
their proper master/slave configurations.

When I start up W98, it sees all these new controllers for the new
board and automatically wants to add drivers, which of course I only
have on the CD that came with the board, however Windows isn't seeing
my CD-rom.

BIOS does, Windows doesn't. It's not in the system devices either.
So I can't run the install drivers program on the CD. When I try add
new hardware I don't see anything there for CD-rom. There is
something there for a CD controller.

How can I get my CD-rom to be recognized? Windows always wants you
to put the Win98 cd in to do any additions of drivers, which I imagine
I would have to do to add the CD-rom. Sounds like a catch 22.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.
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And the brand and model of CDROM drive is? The motherboard make/model is? It
would help if you provide more specific information. I suggest a backup of
valuable data and a complete reinstall on a newly formatted hard drive
whenever a motherboard is replaced. The reason is that reliability may
become an issue otherwise - even though the OS SHOULD be plug and play,
installing drivers exactly as needed, sometimes the old drivers/registry
settings can interfere with things.

Paul
 
And the brand and model of CDROM drive is? The motherboard make/model is? It
would help if you provide more specific information. I suggest a backup of
valuable data and a complete reinstall on a newly formatted hard drive
whenever a motherboard is replaced. The reason is that reliability may
become an issue otherwise - even though the OS SHOULD be plug and play,
installing drivers exactly as needed, sometimes the old drivers/registry
settings can interfere with things.

Paul
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The MOBO is MSI KT6V. The drive seems generic - I'm still looking

Thanks
 
Let us know when you've found out what it is. If you cant find a sticker on
it, then it should come up with some indication on boot when the BIOS
detects it.

Paul
 
The MOBO is MSI KT6V. The drive seems generic - I'm still looking

Thanks
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MSI is a very good MB. If your drive is 10 years old or something, it's
time to get another one.
 
Did you delete ALL the old references to controllers and
drives, or is this a new install of win98? If new doesn't
win98 require a boot disk with the cdrom driver on it? If
you are attempting to use the old installation you must delete
all references to hardware in Device Manager and let
Windows redetect all your hardware. The best advice
you've gotten so far is to do a clean install.
 
With a new motherboard,it's best to download and install the latest chipset
drivers. The set that comes on the CD could be old. Downloading them will let
you bypass the CD until you have the drivers installed.
I have bought a new MOBO, and have installed it. It won't recognize
my CD drive.
Click to expand...
When I start up W98, it sees all these new controllers for the new
board and automatically wants to add drivers, which of course I only
have on the CD that came with the board, however Windows isn't seeing my
Click to expand...
CD-rom.
 
And the brand and model of CDROM drive is? The motherboard make/model is? It
would help if you provide more specific information. I suggest a backup of
valuable data and a complete reinstall on a newly formatted hard drive
whenever a motherboard is replaced. The reason is that reliability may
become an issue otherwise - even though the OS SHOULD be plug and play,
installing drivers exactly as needed, sometimes the old drivers/registry
settings can interfere with things.

Paul
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The CD drive is a Acer 40X Max

What do you think?
 
I have bought a new MOBO, and have installed it. It won't recognize
my CD drive.

I went into BIOS and set everything as best as I could, since these
3rd world manuals are so vague and this one says nothing as to how
things should be set. Both HDs and the CD are recognized and are in
their proper master/slave configurations.
Click to expand...

Generally with a new(er) motherboard the settings, should not be
set... leave them on "auto". 40X CDROM is new enough that it
ought to support booting to CDROM, try setting system to boot to
CDROM in bios boot choices menu then insert bootable CD, see if
it works.
When I start up W98, it sees all these new controllers for the new
board and automatically wants to add drivers, which of course I only
have on the CD that came with the board, however Windows isn't seeing
my CD-rom.
Click to expand...

Option 1 - Copy those drivers to the hard drive before swapping
boards

Option 2 - Ignore/cancel the wizards when windows can't find a
driver or use the "default" driver. After all generic chipset
drivers are installed (and a few reboots later) the drive may
then work.

BIOS does, Windows doesn't. It's not in the system devices either.
So I can't run the install drivers program on the CD. When I try add
new hardware I don't see anything there for CD-rom. There is
something there for a CD controller.
Click to expand...

Do not try to use "add hardware", it is not necessary and you'd
end up with one invalid entry in device manager in addtion to the
(later) properly detected CDROM drive. *Standard*, common
hardware never needs added with Add Hardware.
How can I get my CD-rom to be recognized? Windows always wants you
to put the Win98 cd in to do any additions of drivers, which I imagine
I would have to do to add the CD-rom. Sounds like a catch 22.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me.
Click to expand...

Where did the migration (to the new 'board) stop, that is, where
are you in the process now? Best bet is to put off any items it
can't resolve with (missing) driver and then later go into Device
Manager and see what's not working or missing. Note that booting
to boot floppy or bootable CDROM may load the CDROM driver so you
could copy files to the hard drive from DOS, if you can
guesstimate and navigate the folder hierarchy from the DOS prompt
while seeing only 8 characters of the folder names... or just
copy the whole CDROM to HDD folder... it'll just take a lot
longer.
 
Generally with a new(er) motherboard the settings, should not be
set... leave them on "auto". 40X CDROM is new enough that it
ought to support booting to CDROM, try setting system to boot to
CDROM in bios boot choices menu then insert bootable CD, see if
it works.


Option 1 - Copy those drivers to the hard drive before swapping
boards

Option 2 - Ignore/cancel the wizards when windows can't find a
driver or use the "default" driver. After all generic chipset
drivers are installed (and a few reboots later) the drive may
then work.



Do not try to use "add hardware", it is not necessary and you'd
end up with one invalid entry in device manager in addtion to the
(later) properly detected CDROM drive. *Standard*, common
hardware never needs added with Add Hardware.


Where did the migration (to the new 'board) stop, that is, where
are you in the process now? Best bet is to put off any items it
can't resolve with (missing) driver and then later go into Device
Manager and see what's not working or missing. Note that booting
to boot floppy or bootable CDROM may load the CDROM driver so you
could copy files to the hard drive from DOS, if you can
guesstimate and navigate the folder hierarchy from the DOS prompt
while seeing only 8 characters of the folder names... or just
copy the whole CDROM to HDD folder... it'll just take a lot
longer.
Click to expand...

Thanks

I'll get back.............
 
Generally with a new(er) motherboard the settings, should not be
set... leave them on "auto". 40X CDROM is new enough that it
ought to support booting to CDROM, try setting system to boot to
CDROM in bios boot choices menu then insert bootable CD, see if
it works.


Option 1 - Copy those drivers to the hard drive before swapping
boards

Option 2 - Ignore/cancel the wizards when windows can't find a
driver or use the "default" driver. After all generic chipset
drivers are installed (and a few reboots later) the drive may
then work.



Do not try to use "add hardware", it is not necessary and you'd
end up with one invalid entry in device manager in addtion to the
(later) properly detected CDROM drive. *Standard*, common
hardware never needs added with Add Hardware.


Where did the migration (to the new 'board) stop, that is, where
are you in the process now? Best bet is to put off any items it
can't resolve with (missing) driver and then later go into Device
Manager and see what's not working or missing. Note that booting
to boot floppy or bootable CDROM may load the CDROM driver so you
could copy files to the hard drive from DOS, if you can
guesstimate and navigate the folder hierarchy from the DOS prompt
while seeing only 8 characters of the folder names... or just
copy the whole CDROM to HDD folder... it'll just take a lot
longer.
Click to expand...

Well I disconnected the cable to the CD drive and booted up the
system, then shut down and reconnected the cable. When it powered up
it found the CD drive.

For some reason now I can't get the USB to work. No USB device
works, front or rear.

Oh boy!
 
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