What must I do to make Win 98 see my CD-ROM?

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1. Brand of CD-ROM
2. do you have TWEAKUI installed in the control panel? if so under 'my computer' tab is the drive letter unchecked?
3. When you say 'show up' where are you looking 'MY computer'(desktop) or device manager?
 
John said:
Hi:

1. CD-ROM: Asus... I have loaded the drivers.

2. TWEAKUI: I will check.

3. At Explorer level, it does not see it. Device manager does not show
CD-ROM
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I've seen machines that need ALL the cdrom lines in config.sys and
autoexec.bat rem'd out (add REM to the start of each line) for the CD to
work, then again had flakey machines that needed ALL of the DOS CDrom stuff
enabled for it to work. Does the CD work with a 98SE boot disk?
 
[This followup was posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]

Hi:

1. The cpu I am working running Win98.

2. At the BIOS level, it sees the CD-Rom

3. At Windows level, it does not show up.

What must I do to make the CD-Rom visible in Windows?

TIA
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I agree with Stacey - Does a DOS boot disk with the appropriate driver
find the drive?

If yes, I have found that booting once into windows with the real mode
DOS driver in config.sys will "tell" windows it's there. Rem out or
delete the driver from config.sys and reboot. The CDROM should still be
there.

Peter
 
Hi:

1. The cpu I am working running Win98.

2. At the BIOS level, it sees the CD-Rom

3. At Windows level, it does not show up.

What must I do to make the CD-Rom visible in Windows?

TIA
 
Hi:

1. CD-ROM: Asus... I have loaded the drivers.

2. TWEAKUI: I will check.

3. At Explorer level, it does not see it. Device manager does not show
CD-ROM

Thanks


JAD said:
1. Brand of CD-ROM
2. do you have TWEAKUI installed in the control panel? if so under 'my
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computer' tab is the drive letter unchecked?
 
Peter said:
I agree with Stacey - Does a DOS boot disk with the appropriate driver
find the drive?

If yes, I have found that booting once into windows with the real mode
DOS driver in config.sys will "tell" windows it's there. Rem out or
delete the driver from config.sys and reboot. The CDROM should still be
there.
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Is there any harm in just leaving it there? And if it's rem'd out, the CD
isn't going to work in dos mode is it?
 
Stacey said:
I've seen machines that need ALL the cdrom lines in config.sys and
autoexec.bat rem'd out (add REM to the start of each line) for the CD to
work, then again had flakey machines that needed ALL of the DOS CDrom stuff
enabled for it to work. Does the CD work with a 98SE boot disk?
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Interesting... I did look at the config.sys... I will try rem'ing them.
Thanks
 
Peter Piper said:
[This followup was posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]

Hi:

1. The cpu I am working running Win98.

2. At the BIOS level, it sees the CD-Rom

3. At Windows level, it does not show up.

What must I do to make the CD-Rom visible in Windows?

TIA
Click to expand...

I agree with Stacey - Does a DOS boot disk with the appropriate driver
find the drive?

If yes, I have found that booting once into windows with the real mode
DOS driver in config.sys will "tell" windows it's there. Rem out or
delete the driver from config.sys and reboot. The CDROM should still be
there.

Peter
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Yes, my DOS boot disk with the Oak thing sees the CD. I will check the
config.sys. Thanks
 
Is there any harm in just leaving it there? And if it's rem'd out, the CD
isn't going to work in dos mode is it?
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I always thought leaving the driver in would result in the drive working
in a slower real mode under Windows. I am certainly not sure of that
assumption. Yes, without that driver a DOS command prompt boot would not
have a CD.

Tom
 
Peter said:
I always thought leaving the driver in would result in the drive working
in a slower real mode under Windows. I am certainly not sure of that
assumption. Yes, without that driver a DOS command prompt boot would not
have a CD.
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Another thing I've run into rarely when installing windows with no real dos
mode driver installed before starting the windows install was having
windows start it's first boot (or maybe second?) and it wants a driver from
the CD before it has windows up and there is no CD support yet. Duh!

And I think you're right that if the dos driver isn't remed it uses the 16
bit driver instead of the 32 bit one. Never tested to see what penalty this
causes.
 
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