| Post ID |
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| 9701 |
2001-03-07 11:02:00 |
My problem is 4 CD-ROM icons keep loading in Explorer and under CD Drives in Device Manager.The drive door opens and shuts and the busy light activates but windows can't read any of the icons. I have tried all sorts of settings like base memory, uninstalled the drive and sound card and had windows auto detect new devices whih it does.Windows detects the drive and loads the drivers but still insists on loading the 4 icons giving me 5 CD drives as 1 is already installed.
The machine I am working on is a 486 66MHz DX2 with 16mb RAM, 250Mb Samsung HDD a Future Domain 1680 SCSI Adapter driving a Sony CDU-561 SCSI CDROM Drive and a Gallant SC6000 sound card that has the Panasonic AT interface set.Sound card jumper settings are set to default and checked as I got this informatoin of the net.The sound card works fine along with everything else. THe CD drive I am atempting to install is a Creative drive, a CR563-B. Any info on why windows keeps setting up 4 CR563-B drives would be much appreciated. |
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| 9702 |
2001-03-08 01:59:00 |
These 4 drives that appear in explorer may be 'phantom' drives that have been reserved by windows. To prevent windows from reserving these drive letters, open system settings from the control panel, select the device manager tab and scroll down the list until you find your CDROM listed. Right click the drive and select properties, this should allow you to un-reserve these drive letters. |
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| 9703 |
2001-03-08 03:21:00 |
Hi, has it ever worked correctly? I see there are specific drivers for it floating round on the net, you may want to use them rather than the windows default drivers. Also, are you using only the windows 32 bit drivers, or are others installing via config.sys? Does the SCSI drive have any affect on the creative one if you remove it? |
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