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  • December 3, 2001 at 6:45 am #2131912

    Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

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    by bellsarecalling · about 20 years, 5 months ago

    Somehow lost my CDrom functionality. CDRom inaccessible was highlighted.So checked Win98se Add Hardware section to find out.Cdrom not detected. Did manual search for CDROM. Alo! No Installation disk!!!
    Checked Cyberdrive website. Driver not needed,as Windows has one for ATAPI.

    Checked bios on M/board.Ticked HDD as master, Cdrom as slave.

    Above came to square one again. My system …
    Asus K7V-RM Slot A M/Board, Athlon 600 CPU.
    Can anyone help?? Also,I wish to upgrade to faster AMD cpu.Any suggestion as there are so many out there.

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    • December 3, 2001 at 7:14 am #3547869

      Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

      by smilee279 · about 20 years, 5 months ago

      In reply to Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

      Double check the jumpers (even though you said you did), and also make sure the cables are firmly seated in the system board. Also, if at all possible, see if you can swap out the cd-rom. It is possible even if the bios sees the cd-rom, that windows may not. Also, try updating your bios.

      • February 2, 2002 at 11:52 am #3422804

        Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

        by bellsarecalling · about 20 years, 3 months ago

        In reply to Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

        I apologise for not putting my problem in a more proper context. It was a ‘software’ problem and solved with a line in the config.sys file viz:-

        DEVICE=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001

        Thanks for the trouble.

        Regards,
        Andrew

    • February 2, 2002 at 11:48 am #3422807

      Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

      by bellsarecalling · about 20 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

      It was a ‘software’ and not hardware problem as most would think…per various articles about CDROM in this column.

      It was fixed with this line in the Config.sys file

      DEVICE=C:\CDPRO\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001

      My apology to all who misconstrued my question. I was’nt properly put at the frustrating moment.

      Regards.
      Andrew

    • February 2, 2002 at 11:01 pm #3424786

      Cyberdrive 52X CD-Rom – Hardware Instal

      by bellsarecalling · about 20 years, 3 months ago

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