re: Sony CD-R/RW CRX 230A --QYS3
Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 9:55 am
Posted by Harken
(97 messages posted)
Many thanks for reply Jack.
You are 101% correct it is Plug & Play and drivers are automatically installed
by Windows.
It turns out that I bot what I thot was and comination Burner and items that can
use CD's similarly as 3 1/2 floppies.
All I can do is use this as a floppy drive at present and pay about $30.00 for an
upgrade to B's
Gold edition which will allow me to copy CD's etc.
No mention printed on Sony's box or advertising concerning this.
Oh Well, will buy their Gold Edition.
Thanks again for assistance.
On Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 10:08 am, Jack Gulley wrote:
> 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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