re: cdrom device not recognized Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 11:49 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Brian Daniel (1 messages posted) Many thanks to REBOOTBill; this did the trick for my system which would not recognize the CDROM in Device Manager (if there was a Tip box I'd leave you a tip :-D On Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 4:06 am, rebootbill wrote: >Found this, finally worked. >The CD-ROM drive is not recognized under Windows 98. > >Symptoms: >There are yellow exclamation points in device manager next to the hard disk controllers >and, the performance tab of the system properties says that the D: drive is running >in MS-DOS compatibility mode. > >Solution: >The possible cause to this is an entry to the Windows 98 registry of NOIDE. To correct >this, follow the below steps: > >1. Click on the start button, go to run and left click. Type in regedit and press >enter. >2. Click on the + next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. >3. Click on the + next to SYSTEM. >4. Click on the + next to CURRENTCONTROLSET. >5. Click on the + next to SERVICES. >6. Click on the + next to VXD. >7. Double click on the folder IOS >8. In the right window there should be an entry that says NOIDE. >9. Left click on the NOIDE entry once to highlight it. Press the delete key on your >keyboard to remove the entry. >10. Click on the x in the upper right corner of the registry editor to close regedit. >11. Click on the start button, Click on shutdown. Click the restart option. Click >ok. >12. From there when the machine restarts your CD-ROM drive will be functioning normally. > >If these steps do not work or you do not have the option in the registry as it is >described, then you may have a virus. Use a virus scanner to scan the system and >search for viruses. > > > > Written in response to: re: cdrom device not recognized (rebootbill: Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 4:06 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] cdrom device not recognized (rebootbill: Wed, Dec 4, 2002, 3:08 am) re: cdrom device not recognized (rebootbill: Wed, Dec 4, 2002, 4:06 am) re: cdrom device not recognized (Randy: Tue, Jan 7, 2003, 12:05 pm) re: cdrom device not recognized (rebootbill: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 12:24 pm) re: cdrom device not recognized (Oh_dear: Fri, Jan 10, 2003, 12:59 pm) re: cdrom device not recognized (Brian Daniel: Tue, May 17, 2005, 11:49 am) re: cdrom device not recognized (Jeannie: Sat, Jan 18, 2003, 8:25 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum