Help needed with Compaq CD-rom

[CheshireCat]

Hi,

Anyone knows how to make a compaq CD-rom work in a non-compaq system?
I got an Abit BH6 and I tried just about every jumper setting and no use. But if the drive is plugged with the hd and both are set to master, they still conflict...

Please help!

 

[Cweeks]

<< But if the drive is plugged with the hd and both are set to master, they still conflict... >>




This could be the problem. Make the Hard Drive master and the CD slave if they are used on the same channel..

Aloha

 

[GregANDTCH]

I think Compaq uses &quot;cable-select&quot; cables,
so DON'T use the cable marked &quot;CS&quot;.
Make sure you are using a regular cable.

 

[NeMeSi]

I've seen this time and again: Compaq, HP, and IBM parts are all proprietary (sp?). The only work with their own parts. I highly doubt that you'll get it working. Go out and spend the $25 on a new, probably 3 times as fast, CD ROM unit.

 

[CheshireCat]

Thanks for the help...
I tried just about every jumper settings...
My ide cable is also a cable that came with the board...
I was just wondering if someone knew if there was a way to change settings on the drive itself.. a jumper or something... it is afterall a 40X CD

 

[GregANDTCH]

Sorry,
I have to disagree with NeMeSi.
I've got a Compaq DVD Rom DVD-115
that works really well so far. (about 3 months)
I use it for &quot;DAE&quot;, but I haven't found the DVD-movie
I had to try in it yet.
What model is your drive?
Post all the #'s you can.

I used to have a Compaq PC-CD drive &amp;
it worked fine too.

 

[CheshireCat]

Ok
it's a:

CRD-8400B
p/n: 388036-706
replace with: 400807-001

 

[Pretty Cool]

Documentation

PDF Manual

Drivers + Instructions

If Windows does not detect your drive, install the the DOS drivers. Reboot into Windows and use the ADD New Hardware function in Control Panel. Lastly, REM the cd drivers in your autoexec.bat and config.sys.

 

[CheshireCat]

it's not windows, it's not detected PERIOD

 

[WarCon]

Have you done as Cweeks implied. Put the harddrive on the master setting jumper and the cdrom on the slave setting jumper. This isn't optional(well you could also put the cdrom on its own cable and leave it master and plug it into the secondary IDE port), this is the way it has to be done. Then in bios make sure its enabled and set to auto detect. As far as I know and I have worked on many Compaq's their cdrom drives are just normal cdrom drives. Not necessarily the highest quality ones, but they aren't wretchedly cheap ones either.