OAK CD_ROM driver not loading on 965 chipset boards

[J0hnson]

oakcdrom.sys and other CD-ROM drivers not loading from boot CD's for any purpose not working.

I'm very irritated about this .....=/ I'm the kind of guy that likes to Image my installations to cut down on headaches after i destroy windows, which imo is only a matter of time. It s so much easier to restore an image than go through the BS and headache of reinstalling and updateing everything

I'm using atm gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (not the "D") F8 BIOS Rev 1.0 ( I know I blew it on the board) , C2D 6600, 8800 GTS .... blah blah blah


Has anyone else run into this problem and what are the fixes if any ??? Or there a known board out there with a 965 chipset that will load the CD drivers from Hirens or any other boot CD with out any problems?

thank you


Let me add i'm A+ for what its worth and have isolated the problem to the MB

 

[Peter]

You need to have the IDE controller on "legacy" mode, at least the one the CDROM drive is on. "Native" won't work.

 

[J0hnson]

I whish it was tha easy. There is no ability to change beteween "Legacy" and "Native" for the IDE controller in the F8 F6 or the F4 Bios simply native "enable" or "disable" and neither setting works to load the oakcdrom.sys driver from a boot CD. I even tried using a PATa to SATA adapter on the DVD drive it worked great except it still would not load the oakcdrom.sys driver.

I need a solution badly the board is gigabyte GA-965P-S3 (not the "D")

I'm about at the end of my rope with this ..... is there a good 965 with SATA II out there that will for sure load the CD driver so it spossible to image a boot drive?

 

[quest55720]

You should really look at the biostar p965pt sure it has very few features. It does not have that crappy jmicron IDE controller like very other 965 motherboard. It is also very affordable 104+shipping and got very good reviews. I could be wrong but it is the biostar p965 or go to a 975 like the bad axe 2 to avoid the head ace of the jmicron controller.

I guess the other solution would be to go all sata devices to avoid the horrible IDE controller.

 

[J0hnson]

Originally posted by: quest55720
You should really look at the biostar p965pt sure it has very few features. It does not have that crappy jmicron IDE controller like very other 965 motherboard. It is also very affordable 104+shipping and got very good reviews. I could be wrong but it is the biostar p965 or go to a 975 like the bad axe 2 to avoid the head ace of the jmicron controller.

I guess the other solution would be to go all sata devices to avoid the horrible IDE controller.

Your knid of off the mark here, i think ..i need to Image my drives in dos mode. I also did hook my my CD drive up using a sata converter and avoided the IDE controller all together and it still wouldn't load. Now this biostar board... I just need confirmation that it will load the drivers before i would switch. IF you have that that board could you boot from a Hirens disk and see if you can fire up ghost? thank you

 

[quest55720]

My biostar P965 won't get here till friday or I would try it. Another thing to consider is I have read that optical devices don't always work well with the IDE to Sata converter. From what I have read it seems the device is more for hard drives than CD/DVD roms. I will ghost my system I just hope it works.

 

[J0hnson]

the Sata converter was just the last move of a desparate man.... I'm bent so i just installed vista anyway with out saving an image of my XP install I hope it dosen't bite me in the butt.