CDROM problems

[vancur]

Friend of mine a problem with a CDROM. CMOS and Win98 recoginze that there is a CDROM, but anytime you try to access a CD, it says the drive is inaccessible. Any ideas???

 

[obenton]

I'd try accessing it with win98 startup floppy, which loads the DOS drivers for it. Then you'd know if it's a hardware problem or a win98 problem. If the latter, check device manager and make sure the cdrom's IDE channel is enabled. If hardware, check the drive's jumper setting and cable placement.

 

[vancur]

I checked in with my friend about the CDROM. Apparently, she can read audio CDs just not data CDs...

 

[vancur]

Could the laser be out of alignment just enough to make it able to read audio, but not data??

 

[JACKHAMMER]

If the mobo support bootable cd roms (enable it 1st), stick in the win98 cd and see if it reads , that way you can see if it hard or software problems.

 

[DaddyG]

Obenton, has a good idea.The Win 98 Emergency boot floppy has lots of drivers compressed onto it. When the floppy boots, the drivers are de-compressed onto a ram drive. If one of these drivers work, then the problem is with WIN98.

Depending on how she accesses the CD-player, Audio could play over the analogue interface, not really using the IDE -Interface much.