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by swfoster44

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I have a pentium 133 that will not see a cdrom. There is no setting in the bios and i have tried every possiable configuration i can think of. Win 98 drivers will not find it. I am stuck with this thing. What can i do? Will upgrading the bios help?

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by thechas

1. Make sure that the CD Drive will work with a P133. It is possible that a newer drive will not work on your system.

2. In BIOS settings, make sure that the IDE channel is enabled. Set the drive to either auto-detect or CD-ROM.

Make sure the drive jumpers are configured properly. Try a new IDE cable.
Make sure that pin 1 is properly identified at both ends of the IDE cable.

3. Make sure the drive is IDE and not SCSI.

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by thechas

Oh, for some motherboards, you need to have the IDE bus driver for the chipset installed.

If you need help identifying your board, or the drivers check out www.motherboards.org

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by rcom

The CDROM if connected to your hard drive must have the jumper on the back set to slave. f it's connected to the other IDE the make sure the ribbon cables are connected correctly. The red strip goes next to the power connector on the CDROM. Once the computer is running push the open button on the CDROM if it opens at least you know there's power to the drive.

Next try starting the computer using a win98 boot disk and be sure to accept "boot with CDROM support" if the CDROM works like that then it's a problem in Windows.
If so and everything is connected correctly, try installing the DOS CDROM driver. Windows will see it. Afterwards use sysedit.exe from start/run command go to the autoexec.bat file type rem at the beginning of the line that has MSCDEX.exe in it.

Good Luck!

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