help w/ DVD-ROM

[AMD900*]

ok so i just got fast and the furious on DVD i wanted to ude TV-out on my GeForce 2 Ti but i was running 23.11s so i intall the leadtek driver but the TV-out option working i cant chose it when i first got the card it work w/ this drivers well i got to playing around and now my DVD-ROM is not working when i was playing around i used windows 98 boot disk i started the boot w/ CD support then i got this(A:>) so i turn it off and restarted on safe mode and now DVD-ROM or CD-ROM wont work i need help bad

[minoukat]

So you're saying that the DVD isn't working or that windows can't recognize the drive, or what ? And with which drivers does the TV-OUT work, the new or the old ones ?

In Safe Mode, Windows doesn't load any drivers, so that's why your DVD doesn't work in Safe Mode. And when you boot up with a boot disk, it's normal to arrive at a DOS prompt with "A:\>". to go in your C drive, just type "C:".

[AMD900*]

i think windows isnt recognicing it and the tv-out didnt work in neither of the drivers

[AMD900*]

when i go to run then browse... then click on the desktop window i dont see the DVD nor the CD-ROM

[Arkaine23]

Don't know what to say... does the drive play dvd's at all? or is it just a tv-out problem? Go to control panels and device manager to troubleshoot the drive and make sure it's drivers are installed and working. If it's just a Tv-out problem you'll have to look around for a program that removes nvidia drivers. I think I saw one on nvidia.com or maybe guru3d... detonator buster or something like that. Then try to re-install the leadtek drivers. Hope that helps you.

[Arkaine23]

go into control panel, add new hardware wizard, select the drive, and click properties. What does it say?

[minoukat]

are you still in safe mode ? I had lots of problems with my CD-ROM drives in Windows 98SE, as once, when it crashed, after a reboot, windows didn't recognize my Voodoo3, or my cd-roms. Try checking the connections of your drives, disconnect the IDE cable from the motherboard (the one connected to the CD-ROM and DVD drives), boot up, shut down again, and reconnect the drives. it helped me out once

[AMD900*]

hey Arkaime23 it only shows the ethernet controler
minoukat how do i reconnect the drives?

[minoukat]

I meant physically disconnect the drives (take out the IDE cable that connects the CD-ROM and the DVD to the mobo). Then just replug them.

EDIT : did your system crash, then Windows didn't recognize your drives, or just suddenly, after a restart, they weren't recognized ?

[Arkaine23]

yeah, unplugging it from the mobo, then shutting down should help. Plug it back in, and when you restart check your bios and see if it's been detected.

[AMD900*]

unplugging it while is running???

[minoukat]

shut down, unplug, then restart, then shut down again, the replug them. BTW, does your bios detect the drives right now ?

[AMD900*]

oh im not on safe mode

[AMD900*]

i check it erlier and i think it did

[minoukat]

I would suggest to try the unplugging trick. Unfortunatly, when it happened to me, the only thing I had left to do was reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows.

[Arkaine23]

shutdown, unplug, restart, shutdown, replug, restart, check bios. Then check device manager and try to install the drive if it still isn't working.

You could also try booting from your start-up disk and then loading windows "with cd-rom support" to see if that'll force the drive to use the cd driver from the start-up disk.