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Windows 98 and Secondary IDE controllers

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MercenaryForHire

Lifer
It does work, since I just installed 98 off the CD.

But in Device Manager, it gives an Error 10, and doesn't show the CD drive as being present.

WTH gives?

- M4H
 
Some PCI controllers have trouble with optical drives in Windows, could be that.

I've used Promise controllers since the 486 / DOS days, but only for hard drives.
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Some PCI controllers have trouble with optical drives in Windows, could be that.

I've used Promise controllers since the 486 / DOS days, but only for hard drives.
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I'm thinking it's software, since XP works just fine with it. But not only is it way too old for XP (and has no valid license, I just wanted to test it) it's supposed to be a backup 98 PC so that my little bro can play his older games. 🙂

- M4H
 
Since you installed from the cd, the hardware should be OK. You could easily check with an "Ultimate boot CD". If this is win98se a rollup of updates and drivers is available at http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html that may even include some Mobo drivers. I use Ver 1.6.2 with success.

Was the error for the secondary PCI controller or the CD? When I encounter errors in device manager, I always delete and redetect the item. You may have to delete the whole PCI bus and allow everything derived from it to redetect .

What Mobo and chipset. If it's VIA mine were always picky about which chipset drivers were used.

I hope there's some help in here somewhere.


Jim


 
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