Howdy folks,
Well I've run into a problem with an external PCMCIA CD-ROM that my friend purchased for his laptop. This is a I/Omega 24X PCMCIA CD-ROM and he is using Win98 S.E.
Now I installed Win98 onto the hard drive, and followed the user manual for the CD-ROM to the letter. Whenever I pop the CD-ROM into the pcmcia slot the computer freezes up completely. In Windows Explorer I see 2 removable devices, and both are the cd-rom, one being drive D: and the other drive E:
Now previous to this, he had Win2K on the laptop, but a Pentium 166MHz w/ MMX and 64MB of Ram is not enough to make it run smooth, it ran super slow! The only good thing is that Win2K recognized the device, and I did not even have to use the floppy disk supplied with the CD-ROM, Win2K just automatically recognized it.
Is there something I am missing? Is Windows 98 lacking something that is not allowing this to work properly? Do I need to obtain some kind of drivers for the pcmcia to work properly? I've done all the Windows Updates necessary, but am frazzled because I can not figure this one out... OBTW, I/Omega's tech support sucks muffins!
many thanks
Well I've run into a problem with an external PCMCIA CD-ROM that my friend purchased for his laptop. This is a I/Omega 24X PCMCIA CD-ROM and he is using Win98 S.E.
Now I installed Win98 onto the hard drive, and followed the user manual for the CD-ROM to the letter. Whenever I pop the CD-ROM into the pcmcia slot the computer freezes up completely. In Windows Explorer I see 2 removable devices, and both are the cd-rom, one being drive D: and the other drive E:
Now previous to this, he had Win2K on the laptop, but a Pentium 166MHz w/ MMX and 64MB of Ram is not enough to make it run smooth, it ran super slow! The only good thing is that Win2K recognized the device, and I did not even have to use the floppy disk supplied with the CD-ROM, Win2K just automatically recognized it.
Is there something I am missing? Is Windows 98 lacking something that is not allowing this to work properly? Do I need to obtain some kind of drivers for the pcmcia to work properly? I've done all the Windows Updates necessary, but am frazzled because I can not figure this one out... OBTW, I/Omega's tech support sucks muffins!
many thanks
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