Win98 Install can't find CD-Roms

[RKC]

Help,

I have been trying to do a full reinstall of my Win98 SE on my computer and it cannot find any CD ROMS on my system. I have a 48x CD-RW and a 52x generic along with two hard Maxtor hard drives. All four are connected to a Promise TX-100 controller card. which sees all four drives when I boot up

However, the Win98 floppy boot disk can't find the cd-roms so I can't use my Win98SE full installation disk. If I have my Win98 disk in the CRom it won't boot directly from there either.

I have checked my bios and have them set to boot the system from either the cd-roms or floppy, Nothing in the bios looks out of the ordinary

Is this a motherboard problem or a Win98 problem?

My M/B is an Asus K7M with a AMD 700 Slot A CPU.

[TwoRails]

Hi RKC,

I'm not all that good with controller cards, but I do think might have to hook one CD up to a normally IDE channel, then run the install that way.

TwoRails

[Confused]

I have read numerous post on this forum that optical devices shouldn't be connected to controller cards. Thay should be connected to the IDE channels as TwoRails suggested.
Chas

[RKC]

Yep,

You were right, TwoRails and Confused. I connected them back to the m/b and was able to reinstall w/no problems. This also solved some issues of a couple games I could not get to run, which now run fine.

Thanks for the advice

Ron

[stylin19]

I must have gotten lucky...
I have cdrom & a burner connected to a promise ultra 100 secondary IDE. Works great.

[Markoman01027]

Sounds good..glad to see things are working..so right now I am going to assume that controller cards only work with hard drives and not optical devices.

[azscary]

Originally posted by stylin19
I must have gotten lucky...
I have cdrom & a burner connected to a promise ultra 100 secondary IDE. Works great.

Was that a controller card, or did you have them plugged into the MB secondary??

[stylin19]

Controller card. MB controllers are not being used.
The downside is, the controller card is not supported in DOS.