Alright, so, a girl from work asked me to look at my computer, and I am stumped.
All jumpers and cables in the system are good, I double and triple checked this for sure. Whats happening is using a bootable recovery disc, I can install win98 and boot into it, and everything works fine, I can run anything on the hard drive, and so on.
However, if I try and pop a disc in, it freezes on the autoload, and if I drop a non-bootable cd in, it freezes when I try and open explorer.
The drive has to be fine, Imean, it successfully installs software from dos mode, I can't believe windows would have an issue with it from a clean install, I assumed that her win98 install beforehand had fubared something.
Any suggestions? I've tried another cd-rom in it's place, also, and that too did the exact same thing. I've tried swapping ide channels, location of master/slave configs, and so on, and solved nothign so far
All jumpers and cables in the system are good, I double and triple checked this for sure. Whats happening is using a bootable recovery disc, I can install win98 and boot into it, and everything works fine, I can run anything on the hard drive, and so on.
However, if I try and pop a disc in, it freezes on the autoload, and if I drop a non-bootable cd in, it freezes when I try and open explorer.
The drive has to be fine, Imean, it successfully installs software from dos mode, I can't believe windows would have an issue with it from a clean install, I assumed that her win98 install beforehand had fubared something.
Any suggestions? I've tried another cd-rom in it's place, also, and that too did the exact same thing. I've tried swapping ide channels, location of master/slave configs, and so on, and solved nothign so far
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