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CDROM NOT WORKING!!!

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dmbsuperfan

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The title pretty much sums it up....my computer froze one day, and when I tried to reboot it, the CDROM wouldn't work. At start-up, it says "ATAPI-not compatible." What should I do?
 
well, start by nuking it.
Take it out, then boot up and remove any mention of it from your os (i'm giong to assume windows)
then re-boot, and see if it will auto-detect.
Also, try booting with a win98 boot disk.

If none of those can recognize the drive, the drive itself is shot. Hope you had a good warranty.

bart
 
Well you need a bootdisk with CDrom drivers.

Blade Runners disk is great. Just skip all the menu options till you get to 'install CDRom drivers'

I have it on my site

http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/arena/8570/BootDisk.zip

Just make sure you have a bootable disk.

Stick a floppy in the drive go to a Dos prompt and at:

C:\windows (type sys a: )

or stick in a floppy, go to My computer and right click the A: drive and select format and just check (copy system files)

afterwards unzip the bootdisk.zip file to the floppy and whalla...just boot the computer with the disk in and go to Install CDRom driver prompt
 
If you can't get Windows to detect the CD-ROM with Add New Hardware, boot into Safe Mode, remove every mention of the CD-ROM in the Device Manager, and reboot.
 
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