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by iyengar

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I have an Intel i430vx motherboard with a Pentium 166 mhz Intel Processor, 64 mb RAM and 4 gb HDD(Antique, I know!). I have installed Windows 98 on this system and it has applications like Microsoft Visual studio (VFP, VSS, VInterdev) and MSDN running along with the PWS.

The queer thing is that the CD drive is not visible sometimes in the windows explorer. Once I reboot my system, the cd drive re-appears. I need to get rid of this occurence.

The system also displays an error message "inetinfo error......" at shutdown. I have no other problems with the system. It is part of a network.

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Srivas

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by james.carey

One more thing, try running scandisk and defrag in safemode with no screen saver active. Slim chance you have a crosslinked or fragmented file.

by james.carey

1. Clear the CMOS and auto-detect the drives.
2. Look in Device Manager and determine if the CD has a drive letter assigned to it, if it does not assign a valid drive letter.
3. Boot to safe mode and look for multiple instances of the CD. If there are, delete all instances of the CD and allow the system to redetect the drive.
4. Verify that the drive has been jumped correctly. It is best to place the drive on the Secondary drive controller and jumper has Master or Cable Select if the only CD in the system. Make sure the drive is at the end of the cable. (Assuming that you have your hard drives on the Primary controller.
5. Disable the screen saver and boot into safe mode, run scandisk and defrag in case there are cross-linked or fragmented files.
6. Try the CD in another computer, if it works replace the cables in your original system when re-installing it.
7. If this fails, try re-installing the OS and all drivers on type of the existing system. Reboot after each installation testing the CD each time. This might identify a conflicting driver or .dll file.
8. Wipe the PC and install the OS and all drivers from scratch.
9. Re-flash the BIOS. If this fails, you probable have a bad motherboard.

by grl

I had a similar problem a couple of times in Windows 95. Once the IDE controller was bad and the drive had to be slaved off the master hard drive. Another time I had to make sure that I had all the latest drivers for the motherboard installed. Also,check the jumper on the CDROM. I've seen problems fixed by changing the jumper from Master or Slave to Cable Select. Also going from Cable Select to Master or Slave has been helpful. I hope that helps.

by nsantos

Intel had a bad run of VX chipsets around the time that 166 chip was released. Symptoms were I/O problems, IDE drives disappearing, ports would stop working, one computer I had, the parallel port would just not work. Once it started working, and on the very next boot the I/O system completely failed. I've seen this problem on many motherboards with the VX chipset. You can try getting a new motherboard or (if you don't feel like spending mony on an old system) try picking up a cheap IDE pci controller card, and attach all the drives to that.

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