pthomass Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 hiYesterday I went to a store and got a new motherboard,CPU,RAM and powersupply.When I got home I wanted to test the computer but had a problem. My operating system didn't found a CD-rom. I have 2 optical drives. An AOPEN CDR/CDRW writer (40x12x48x) and a NEC dual layer DVD writer.Next I tried to use a boot disk from WIN98SE but when I selected to boot WITH CD-ROM support I got a message that the Device driver was not found. And I could not select my CD-ROMS.When I go to the BIOS the drives are found. Both drives are found by the BIOS.When I insert a WIN98SE disk in the cd-rom I get a message asking if I want to boot from HARD DISK of from CD-ROM. When I choose CD-ROM and then I choose the start Win98 from CD I get the same message. Somehow the drivers for my optical drives are not found. Why not? And how can I solve this problem.The hard disk comes from my old computer. Its a Maxtor 7200rpm 60GB.Please help...Thanks in advancePeter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Is your boot floppy the correct one and not corrupted?Try getting or making a new one. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pthomass Posted August 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Yes I did. tried both Win98SEWindows 98 SE OEM | Mirror1 | 2 Windows 98 SE Custom, No Ramdrive | Mirror1 | 2 | 3 And none worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 ????????????????????? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!Corrupt BIOS on your new board? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pthomass Posted August 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I HOPE NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I start my computer to my OS. But also in my OS I cannot find the CD-rom drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Make sure your IDE cables are properly connected, jumpers are set to master and slave, and power is connected..Other than that, there is not much you can do.. perhaps a repair install? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pthomass Posted August 10, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Solved it (in a way)I inserted a Win XP pro CD and booted from that. Strangly it worked and installed WinXP. I even can acces the CD-rom drives now. On a forum of Asus(brand of my motherboard) someone said that it is possible that Win98 had problems with my motherboard. (too old OS)Anyway, it works now just fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Oops! I did not notice you were using 98.. that link I gave above is XP only. Glad to hear it is resolved now.CD-Rom's do not need drivers, they use firmware which is burned into the hardware (like a bios) and Windows supplies the basic ASPI driver needed to read and write data from them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavisMcCarn Posted August 17, 2005 Report Share Posted August 17, 2005 The driver in CONFIG.SYS is freaking out because you have 2 optical drives. You can see it if you hold down the left hand Ctrl key when it is booting and then do step-by-step, saying yes to everything.Disconnect one of the drives until after Win98 is installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbarry Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Solved it (in a way)I inserted a Win XP pro CD and booted from that. Strangly it worked and installed WinXP. I even can acces the CD-rom drives now. On a forum of Asus(brand of my motherboard) someone said that it is possible that Win98 had problems with my motherboard. (too old OS)Anyway, it works now just fine...Pthomass:I have run into a similar problem with Windows 98.Did you install WinXP to solve the problem or did you just boot from the XP CD, install the CD-ROM drivers and you were able to find the CD-ROM drives still using Windows 98?Solved it (in a way)I inserted a Win XP pro CD and booted from that. Strangly it worked and installed WinXP. I even can acces the CD-rom drives now. On a forum of Asus(brand of my motherboard) someone said that it is possible that Win98 had problems with my motherboard. (too old OS)Anyway, it works now just fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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