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| 461720 | 2006-06-08 20:43:00 | Have been given an old Digital Venturis 486 PC and trying to install CD ROM with no luck. Have connected CD-ROM drive via IDE cable and power supply but Windows 95 does not recognise the CD ROM. Unable to include CD-ROM drive in bios settings - refers to hard disks. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Many thanks. |
Kaiboy61 (10521) | ||
| 461721 | 2006-06-08 21:39:00 | oooooooh, now thats old. think we might even have 1 of those flooding around the storgae shed somewhere. Now the original cd drives were attached to the pc via the sound cards or isa risers. I dont think they attached directly to the ide channels on that model but cant be sure. |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 461722 | 2006-06-10 05:57:00 | Becuase Win 95 is basically still just DOS, you need to install some Atapi drivers in your command.com or autoexec.bat file (sorry, I can't remember which) From memory you need to call a file named mscdex.exe. Have a look here digilander.libero.it for drivers. I've got a CD running on an old Compaq 486 under W98 at home so I'll have a look tomorrow and see what makes it tick and get back to you. |
andy (473) | ||
| 461723 | 2006-06-10 06:17:00 | Windows 95 should install the necessary protected mode drivers for a CDROM drive. 16 bit drivers only have to be installed in autoexec.bat and config.sys if the CD drive is required when booting into pure dos, otherwise the Windows drivers will work in a DOS window within Windows. Same comment goes for sound card drivers. (That's why autoexec.bat and config.sys aren't absolutely needed in Win 95.) If DOS 16 bit drivers are installed then a problem can sometimes occur with Win95 getting confused between its own drivers and the DOS drivers, resulting in the drive not working. That's one reason why if DOS drivers are installed then a multi-boot configuration to choose between dos and windows is preferable, so that both sets of drivers are not loaded at the same time. The BIOS is most likely too old to show a CD drive as a boot option, that only came in fairly recently, but if the CD drive, and cables etc are ok, then it should show up as detected in POST. It was some really old x1 and x2 speeds drives like Creative non-IDE drives that ran off sound cards or their own controller cards. If the CD is an IDE drive then it should :) work when plugged into an IDE controller. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 461724 | 2006-06-11 04:17:00 | Yep, Terry is spot on. I've just checked my old Compaq Presario and it doesn't have anything in the Config.sys or autoexec.bat files - I must have been thinking of Win3.1 - haven't used that or 95 for many years so I am getting a bit rusty :confused: . Have you set the jumpers correctly on the drive(s). The HDD needs to be master, and some HDD drives have the option of "Master with slave" or "Master and no other drives". The cd will need to be set as "Slave" if it is on the primary IDE. Usually the jumper is missing if set as slave. Can't think of any other reasons for it not working. |
andy (473) | ||
| 461725 | 2006-06-11 04:30:00 | The Creative X2 drives are a bit sneaky; they use a 40 pin cable exactly like an IDE, but they have to have the Creative interface (either on a soundcard or a small stand-alone card). Panasonic CR563 is a model which comes to mind. As well it would need a "sbcd" driver. There are a number of other non-IDE interfaces around; some using 34 pin cables, others using 40 (as well as SCSI with 50 pin connectors ;) ). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 461726 | 2006-06-11 21:30:00 | Thanks for all the feedback. Managedv to get the CDROM to work - rechecked IDE cables and deleted existing CDROM controller that I had incorrectly loaded and the PC now recognises the CDROM. As noted there are no bios settings given age of PC. | Kaiboy61 (10521) | ||
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