No CD-ROM drive

I almost always have to install the IDE buss driver for the chip-set on the motherboard to get the CD drive to function under Windows 9X.

If this is a name brand system, you may be able to download the driver from the manufacture.

Otherwise, you need to identify the chip-set on the motherboard, and download the driver from the chip manufacture.

If you have an Intel chip-set, you will need to download an older version of the installation utility from the archive. The current version only supports chip-sets for the PIII and newer.

Chas

The P 166 is a PIIX 3 chipset. Chances are you either have DOS driver loading in autoexec.bat or config.sys or the OS is forcing your bios into legacy mode. If the first is so, you need to run regedit and get rid of anything that states "CD" or "mscdex" by putting a ";" in front of the line that it resides in.

If that's not the case then you need to find out from the motherboard manufacturer how to clear your non-volitile ram on the motherboard with either a dipswitch or a jumper setting andreboot to a 98 boot disk with cd support to see if you can see the drive in DOS.

If you CAN see the drive in DOS, run dir on a cd that you know to be a full disk. This will let you know if it's hardware or not. The error CDR101 USUALLY means a bad drive.