got a little device problem...

[Bmxpunk86pl]

yea i just installed win 98 on a second comp, but the problem is that windows will not show the cdrom drive in my computer. the cd rom gets detected in the bios but when i boot up windows, and go to my computer, i dont see the cd rom drive. what could be the problem?

[wildone]

If its an older cdrom drive and not atapi ,you will have to install drivers for it ,(believe it or not) what brand is the cd rom?

wildone

[Bmxpunk86pl]

its a brand new 52x cdrom drive, it worked before but now it doesnt.

[wildone]

I have had that problem before but I cannot rember what caused it at this exact moment,I will let you know if I remember anytime soon , how are the cables ,is that the only drive besides the hdd?

wildone

[scoobydoo]

Thats weird I was having this same problem on my computer earlier today.

It was recognized by the bios, but not by windows!

After screwing with the cable and the auto detect feature in the bios, I finally fixed it by resetting the bios back to the default settings and restarting.

Maybe that will work for you:)

[flounder43]

Originally posted by wildone
I have had that problem before but I cannot rember what caused it at this exact moment,I will let you know if I remember anytime soon , how are the cables ,is that the only drive besides the hdd?

wildone

Me too, Ok, I remember!

It might me your drive letter settings. If the CD drive gets installed on boot up to a drive letter that is not within your settings in windows, it won't recognize it.

Look closely upon boot and see what letter is getting assigned to the drive. For some reason, certain boot disks that I have used assigned it to "R"...

I don't remember how to fix it just now, lets see...

Either get it assigned to a normal drive letter, like D:, or their must be some place to change the drive letters in windows.

I don't know for sure if this is your prob, but that is what happened to me.

[Godfodda]

Do you have any reserved drive letters for an old drive in Device Manager?

[Bmxpunk86pl]

no i dont, ill try playin with the cabels and all. ill tell u guys whats up later.

[Bmxpunk86pl]

ok i changed cabels and nothing. I forgot to mention this but when i try booting up i get and error saying "vnetbios.vxd is missing" could that me related to this?

[wildone]

Probably yes ,thats a virtual device driver,I would bet thats the problem

wildone

[flounder43]

Originally posted by Bmxpunk86pl
ok i changed cabels and nothing. I forgot to mention this but when i try booting up i get and error saying "vnetbios.vxd is missing" could that me related to this?

I get errors like that once in a while after messing with the network settings...There is almost no way to get rid of that error without messing with the registry... Could be the prob, but I wouldn't bet on it.

Did you get a look at what drive letter is getting assigned to the cd drive? Boot into dos and see if the drive letter is there...

Otherwise, looks like a fresh install is in order.

[wildone]

Go into bios and under plug and paly OS select yes if its no or vice versa ,just to see what happens.

wildone

[Bmxpunk86pl]

yea i changed the pnp os in the bios but still no cdrom drive. I also checked in msbos and no cdrom drive.