Here's one for the Pro's... I need help.

[Surfhead]

I have a bit of computer knowlege, enough to have put together a couple of machines from ground up. My problem is this. I have a PCCHIPS 598LMR running a AMD K6II 450, with win98se. For some reason the CD rom stopped working. I swapped out CD roms, no help. Re-installed the IDe drivers, nothing, at one point the cd rom wasn't there when you clicked on "MY computer".After re-installing the IDE drivers, it re-appeared but still didn't work. I check cables, Ram, you name it. A friend told me to get a promise card, or get another motherboard, if the price is right. I chose the latter, getting a used SOYO 5EHM from the Anandtech board. Afer putting the new board together, I have the same problem. I used different cables and used another CDROM drive, I know works? What's happening. The Cd rom again shows up as the slave when its booting up, but does not show up on the device manager, or when clicking on MY Computer. I changed the processor to a K62 400 that I had laying around.. Still no help. What gives, Any Help?

 

[Ladi]

Do you have the CDROM on the primary or secondary IDE channel? How about hard drives or any other IDE devices? How are your jumpers set? More details always help

~Ladi

 

[Surfhead]

I've got the HD and CD rom on the same IDE channel. I tried setting the CD rom to Master and setting it on the second IDE slot. No Help. Could this be the Power Supply, cause the case , and the Hard drive is the only think I haven't changed.

 

[rnimz]

I had the exact same problem on a PC-chips mobo that a friend of mine had. I tried swapping CD-ROM drives and everything, eventually I got it to work, with both the drives on the same IDE chanle and on a different version of windows 98, I don't know why or how it happened but we could get win95 and a version of win98 to work on it but not his win98, I guess I would say try putting both the CD-Rom and HD on the same chanel and trying a different OS, also does BIOS detect the CD-ROM and HD? (it did for me, in fact I even installed window off of the cd-rom, but when I booted it the cd-rom failed to work.) Good Luck.

 

[Nih]

If your bios is detecting it, then i would say the problem lies in windows. What i do is boot into safe mode, run regedit, local machine, and delete the enum key. Reboot into windows, end all tasks except systray and explorer and run the add new hardware wizard. After reinstalling all you enum info, if your cd shows up..Then you definately know Windows is the culprit .... gl

 

[Surfhead]

RNimz and NIH, You guys are the goods...Took both of your advise.. Ran the regedit thing, and then wiped it clean and intalled another version of win98.. Not the 98se, or Millenium, which I think started this whole problem.. Thanks, lets see if it holds up.. Thanks again

 

[rnimz]

yeah, let us know what happens, good luck again.