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| Thread ID: 40470 | 2003-12-09 02:46:00 | Win98se does not detect CD-Rom drive (new mobo) | Jimmy D (2061) | Press F1 |
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| 198594 | 2003-12-09 02:46:00 | Hi, just got a new mobo, gigabyte k7 triton. when the computer starts up, the cd rom drive is detected. And then we get the problem of not being able to install the mobo drivers because we cannot use the cd rom drive. I have the same hdd as in my old computer (i just transfered everything over) and the cdrom worked in that (the old comp) the bios does detect the correct cdrom. it's a "cd-rom 52x/akh" how can we get it working because windows has generic cd rom drivers (cdrom.inf and cdrom.sys) but when add new hardware is directed to the folders with these it says the file contains no information about the hardware. |
Jimmy D (2061) | ||
| 198595 | 2003-12-09 03:34:00 | From my experience, transferring a HD to a new MB gives a lot of problems. You should install the OS from scratch. Not very helpfull, but I've found out the hard way on two systems that I have built. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 198596 | 2003-12-09 03:40:00 | we are trying to avoid doing that. | Jimmy D (2061) | ||
| 198597 | 2003-12-09 03:44:00 | Have a look in the Device Manager under Hard Disk Controllers. If the Primary and/or Secondary Controllers have a yellow ! on them then the CD-ROM won't work. Run regedit and search for noide and delete it if it finds it. Then restart the PC and check the CD-ROM. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 198598 | 2003-12-09 03:45:00 | Its probably got twisted using the old (wrong) IDE drivers. Did you uninstall EVERYTHING in device manager before you shut the old one down for the last time? That would have given it a slim chance of working in the new motherboard. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 198599 | 2003-12-09 03:52:00 | no we didnt. We were about to put in a old HDD and then format the other HDD's C:/ Can we put hDD in new mobo, then remove everything from device manager in there and then restart and ya da ya da ya da |
Jimmy D (2061) | ||
| 198600 | 2003-12-09 03:55:00 | I have done a lot of installs with Win98SE and the technique I find that works is to force the add new hardware option to try over and over again until it gets through the sequence without freezing then go on to find all hardware that is not plug and play. I have had great problems detecting a CdRom drive every time I have done an install, more than 10 times, but this technique allows has solved the problem even though it is very boring and tedious to do it. Regards Robert. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 198601 | 2003-12-09 03:58:00 | You could try, but beware that you are seriously risking all the data on the drive. If you don't need the data, then fine. Consider getting a new HDD and loading the OS on it afresh, and using the existing HDD as a secondary. Just to get access for the data transfer. Unless you do a new install on the new mobo, you will never get a stable system (even if you can get it to run), from experience. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 198602 | 2003-12-09 04:02:00 | The main HDD out of the old PC has partitions, 2gig partition for C:/ and a 18 gig partition on D:/. if we use the old hdd that we have as primary and the main hdd as slave can we just format the C:/ there are then put main hdd back in new mobo and do it that way |
Jimmy D (2061) | ||
| 198603 | 2003-12-09 04:04:00 | When you first booted up the the old HDD in the new PC did you get a blue screen with a couple of paragraphs going on about the IDE controllers? If so then my suggestion will work as I have done that about 50-60 times doing the same thing of putting a new mobo etc with an old HDD with an OS already installed. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
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