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03-22-2003, 07:21 PM
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Win98 Install can't find CD-Roms
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. |
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03-22-2003, 09:08 PM
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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 |
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03-23-2003, 07:14 AM
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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
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03-23-2003, 11:24 AM
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Yes that was the problem
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 |
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03-23-2003, 11:13 PM
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Location: Il. USA
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I must have gotten lucky...
I have cdrom & a burner connected to a promise ultra 100 secondary IDE. Works great. |
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03-23-2003, 11:43 PM
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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.
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03-23-2003, 11:52 PM
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03-24-2003, 04:36 PM
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Controller card. MB controllers are not being used.
The downside is, the controller card is not supported in DOS. |
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