Problem! Win98SE won't reconize 4x CD-Rom

[Von Ribbentrop]

I've been messing with this for two days and can't get it to work. It's a Hitachi CDR-7730 4x Drive. It is set to master on IDE2(no slave). The drive is recognized in the bios and I have sucessfully installed Win98SE 3 times using it. The problem is once it boots into win98, the cd-rom is not recognized. It is not in the device manager and I have a yellow ! next to my Secondary IDE controller in device manager. I have installed the exact driver for the drive and this does not fix the problem. I also have set the bios to boot from the cd-rom. Win98 installs, but once it boots into win98 the drive is not there. Is this cd-rom not supported by win98 or am I missing something. Everything else works properly.

 

[Von Ribbentrop]

Update:

I force fed it the hitachi driver and the cd-rom shows up in control panel BUT it still isn't showing up in the device manager. Also in order to access the actual cd, it has to be in the drive when I reboot. If I change cds in windows and try to access it, I get: E:\ is not a valid Win32 application.

 

[DaddyG]

Your problem is not the Hitachi driver its probably the Bus Master IDE Driver. More info is required re mobo and other devices in system. Also you could serach the Registry for NOIDE entry and check to see if your HDD is running in real DOS Mode. Windows will not load 32-bit protected mode drivers if the Master Boot Record is 'funky'. A quick FDISK /MBR from a boot floppy will fix this.

Also, some older CD-ROMS don't like to be Auto-Detected, just set to 'None' Note that the CD will not Boot when set to None but its worth a try.

 

[Stealth1024]

If a device is the only one on an IDE channel, I don't set it to master without a slave.

 

[kind-of-blue]

Having similar prob with win2k on an Asus Av7 and Athlon 750. Thought about having windows remove the Bus Drivers and try to redetect on restart. but I'm afraid I won't be able to access the cd-rom when it asks for the drivers.

 

[jliger99]

<< Having similar prob with win2k on an Asus Av7 and Athlon 750. Thought about having windows remove the Bus Drivers and try to redetect on restart. but I'm afraid I won't be able to access the cd-rom when it asks for the drivers. >>



The same problem happened to me, and your suggestion is correct. Make sure you are in Safe Mode when you delete the IDE drivers in Settings/Control Panel/ System/ Device Manager. Windows will rebuild the drivers, and the CD-ROM will show up.

 

[kind-of-blue]

Thanks jliger99. I also found a BIOS patch for that revison of the Asus a7v on the asus website that precisely addresses the secondary master IDE issue. Will apply both BIOS patch and IDE deletion and report my findings.Asus website

 

[DaddyG]

Thouught the Secondary IDE problem was only with WIN2K ??

 

[kind-of-blue]

Don't know about the exclusiveness of the Win2k patch. Check the website.