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| Thread ID: 66020 | 2006-02-08 05:25:00 | Ugent 98 Installation Help Needed!!! | roddy_boy (4115) | Press F1 |
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| 428476 | 2006-02-11 02:20:00 | You should be able to get the CD Rom driver. Google, of course, and "CR563B w98SE" or "CDU33a W98SE" depending on what brand of drive it is. You load the driver in CONFIG.SYS, and run MSCDEX from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Google "mscdex" , and that should give you the whole thing. Hado's instructions should work,. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 428477 | 2006-02-11 02:33:00 | As far as the cdrom drivers go - if your still interested - you need to load up a cdrom driver in the config.sys where /d:mscd001 is the designated name for the driver and the SYS file is the actual driver: ie. "DEVICE=C:\CDDRV.SYS /D:MSCD001" Ok just to clarify... I Run setup from the driver floppy, then edit config.sys so it reads "device=c:\cddrv.sys /d:MSCD001" Exactly that? Or does "c:\cddrv.sys" mean enter the path and file name of the driver? Then in autoexec.bat you need to init the cdrom device(s) using MSCDEX with the driver you specified in config.sys and /L : D specifing that the first cdrom drive will be designated the drive letter assignment "D": ie MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L : D Ummmm.... What do you mean "init the cdrom device"? You mean i edit autoexec.bat so the line reads "MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L : D"? Boy, I am such a driver n00b. Cheers again, roddy |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 428478 | 2006-02-11 02:40:00 | Yes, enter the actual path and the actual name of the driver after "device=" in CONFIG.SYS . The "/D " option gives it a name for MSCDEX (in case you havew more than one). There are defaults, but it's best to be explicit like this. That loads it. Then in AUTOEXEC.BAT, MSCDEX is a programme which "extends" the OS to handle the CD. "Microsoft CD Extensions". ;) With those arguments it shoudl work. You can run it from dos: "mscdex /?" will show you all the options. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 428479 | 2006-02-11 02:55:00 | Ok thanks for clearing that up.. One more quick question.. How do I know what the name/path of the driver is? Alls I do is put the floppy in, run setup, and it tells me its installing to C:\CDPRO. Will the driver be in that folder? What will it's name (probably) be? Thanks again, roddy |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 428480 | 2006-02-11 03:47:00 | Look in the CDPRO directory (from dos "CD CDPRO") and look for a file which has an extension of .SYS - this is usually the device driver... So in the config.sys: "DEVICE=C:\CDPRO\"driver".sys /D:MSCD001" It's better to use DEVICEHIGH instead of device if HIMEM.SYS is loaded - if it's up near the top of the config.sys then you can use DEVICEHIGH |
HadO (796) | ||
| 428481 | 2006-02-11 04:23:00 | It is all very odd, the Creative cdrom driver setup disks, like for the x2 CD200, didnt just write the sbcd.sys driver to a directory, it would also write to autoexec.bat and config.sys and do it all for one. you didnt have to modify those files manually. There were two setup executables on the floppy, install.exe for win3.1 and setup.exe for win95. The compressed file for these drives is sbcddw95.exe, and can be obtained from here: www.cdrom-drivers.com There was another driver for Sound Blaster Panasonic drives of that era where the driver was sbpcd.sys, but that also wrote to autoexec and config files without manual intervention. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 428482 | 2006-02-11 05:01:00 | Yep you're right Terry, they had already written to the autoexec and config files. So no, it didnt work. All good though, just told them it was their computer :p And it wasn't a creative or Panasonic drive, it had "Vuego" written on the top of the label in big letters, and was made by Acer Peripherals Inc.. So there you have it, I wasn't so n00b as I thought, it just wasn't gonna work. Maybe the drivers themselves weren't compatable with 98, and I was gonna need to download different ones? Meh, they seem happy enough that I gave it a go, and acknowledged the fact it wasn't gonna run the games which they wanted to upgrade to 98 for. Thanks again guys, you all made me look like i knew what I was doing :D roddy |
roddy_boy (4115) | ||
| 428483 | 2006-02-11 05:16:00 | Right, it sounds as though the drive has had it. The drivers would almost certainly still work with Win98 if the drive was ok. Maybe you can lay your hands on a second hand IDE CD drive and use that instead. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 428484 | 2006-02-11 08:56:00 | Doesn't even detect CD drive. In BIOS, one of the options is "Boot Sequence", and the 2 options are c:, a:.. or a:, c:. In IDE thingy in BIOS, it only has HD1. What jumpers should be selected? Also, the CD drive is plugged into a PCI card. Cheers. Ummmmm, could I please enquire why and how the cd drive is plugged into a PCI card? Can you not just plug it into a IDE cable, even if it's shared with the HDD? :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 428485 | 2006-02-11 09:15:00 | Ummmmm, could I please enquire why and how the cd drive is plugged into a PCI card? Can you not just plug it into a IDE cable, even if it's shared with the HDD? :confused: :) because that could cause a sudden failure:) They were not IDE drives, even though they had 40 pin IDE type connectors. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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