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No Wonder User - Sep 16, 1998 - 8:45 am

KNOWLEDGE LEVEL: Intermediate

PROBLEM: Hardware
COMPUTER TYPE: PC clone
MODEL: 486 66D
RAM: 16meg
OS VERSION: Not related
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I reformated my daughters 486. for some reason it can't find teh ide port for the CD rom. It's a old sound blaster cd rom made in 93" with an old sound blaster 16 sound card. I tried to install both windows 98 and windows 95 and keep getting the same thing....no valid cd rom drivers. I called creative labs an dthey gave me the driver to use but I still can't get the computer to find the cd rom. I don't think the cd rom is coneected to an IDE port or directly to the mother board but to the sound card...I even installed teh sound card drivers first and then the cd drivers....and then it tell me it found a cd rom but no drivers.
I would appreciate any help I can get.
Thank you in advance for all your help on this matter

No Wonder Tech - Sep 16, 1998 - 3:34 pm

Hi Brian.

I would start by unplugging the CD Rom and the hard drive, then putting them both on the same IDE ribbon cable, one as a master (the hard drive) and the other as a slave (the cd rom).. they should have jumpering diagrams included with them (usually noted on the underside of the device). Then, on boot go into the bios. Tell it to detect IDE, let it detect the devices, and go with it.

With 95 and 98, it shouldn't need drivers for a regular CD Rom drive... thats weird!

Let me know how this works.

Regards,

John