re: disappearing CDROM drives
Monday, July 8, 2002 at 7:35 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Everett
(2940 messages posted)
Brian: looks like the only thing left is the drivers...
On Monday, July 8, 2002 at 6:02 am, Brian wrote:
>I was running win98 on a Dell 450MHz machine. I uninstalled adobe acrobat reader
>and upon rebooting, my machine wouldn't recognize my two installed cdrom drives
(one
>is cd-rw). I found that the only way to get the machine to recognize the drives
is
>to disconnect them from the board (physically) and boot/shutdown, and then reconnect
>them to the board and boot. Then the pc will recognize the drives and I can access
>them. The problem is that if I do anything other than immediately shut down the
pc,
>the next I start it, it won't recognize the drives and I have to go through this
>again. Since it happens with BOTH cdrom drives, I don't think it is the individual
>drivers. I suspect something with the mscdex file of something that is keeping the
>machine from recognizing a CDROM drive (no matter how many). I have also installed
>the win98 SE update and it still does the same thing.
>
>I have tried copying another mscdex file from a different CPU; I tried the microsoft
>knowledge base fix of using "device manager" to look at hard disk ide controllers
>and setting them to "both"; I have searched the registry for "NOIDE" (nothing there),
>but still the same thing: If I physically remove the connections, reboot, shutdown,
>reconnect the drives and reboot; then the machine recognizes the cdrom drives.
If
>I shutdown again and reboot, it still recognizes them, but if I open anything or
>run a few programs, then shutdown and reboot, then the drive icons (and the drives
>themselves) do not reappear (on screen as icons and in my computer/explorer). The
>same is true when booting from the emergency disk: It can find no CDROM controllers.
> Something is happening that makes the CDROM controllers drop out of the start up
>loop, but I don't know what? Suggestions please!!!
>
>Brian
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