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Upgraded to Win2K, now cdrom is missing?

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by millhouselives 2 views

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After upgrading to win2k, the LITE)N485s ide cdrom that is original equipment in an IBM 300gl computer is not listed as a drive at all. bios see it, and the device mgr, also sees it, but reports that it cannot load device driver (code31)have looked this up and did what was suggested, updated driver, etc. reboot, still no cdrom. There is no cdrom device listed in services but I am fairly new to win2k and do not see a way to add cdrom as a device. I know on nt4.0 I could do that and select boot startup for device etc. and device would be found. Could use some help. Thank You?

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by bohicam1

all I can suggest is that you go into the bios and check to see if plug and play operating system is enabled...
good luck!

Mike

by lo

Might try removing it, then reinstalling. Disconnedt the power cable, data cable, and if you have a sound board, that also. Reboot. Go in to the device driver and remove the devices. Reboot. Check that nothing shows for cd (sound card). Repeattill nothing there. Shutdown. Connect CD and sound card backup. Power up. If P&P is working, should find hardware and request drivers (should be on disk). If that still doesn't work, may give you an idea of what/where when P&P doesn't work.

by millhouselives

Try this...Like I said the cd-rom is being found by bios and is listed in both the IBM PC setup and is listed in device mgr in win2k. See original request that shows error code that I am receiving. All was find until I upgraded from NT4.0 workstation to win2000 prof.

thank you for your response
steve holley

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