re: Sony CD-R/RW CRX 230A --QYS3
Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 10:08 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
I am 99.999999% sure you don't need a driver for any IDE CD-Rom drive to work
with Windows ME as a CD-Rom drive. As it is built into Windows 98 and ME. IDE CD-Rom
drives are Plug and Play. They only require driver software for the CD-R/RW function
and these are part of the application software that usually comes with the drive.
Is the drive jumpered (Save or Master) so that it does not conflict with another
drive on the same cable?
If it is on a cable by itself, is the second IDE controller on the system board
enabled in the the system board BIOS CMOS Setup? Some OEM systems come with the second
IDE controller disabled.
When system is powered on, can you push the button and get the tray to open and
close?
If you boot the system with a Windows ME startup diskette, does it find the CD-Rom
drive and allow you to access it as a CD-Rom drive? If it does, the hardware is working
OK.
If it works from a WinDOS ME diskette, but not from Windows, have you searched
the system Registry for a NOIDE key and deleted it?
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