missing cd/dvd drive

HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when i'm done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with a AMD
mobile Athalon.










































foggie

"foggie" wrote in message ...
HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when i'm done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with a AMD
mobile Athalon.

Start regedit on the affected computer, expand and highlight the following key
and look in the right window for "NOIDE". If you find it delete it, then restart
the computer.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\IOS

Ben

"Ben Myers" wrote in
:

"foggie" wrote in message
...
HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more
recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD
drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the
BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when
i'm
done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't
think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with
a AMD
mobile Athalon.

Start regedit on the affected computer, expand and highlight the
following key and look in the right window for "NOIDE". If you find
it delete it, then restart the computer.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\IOS

Ben

nope, doem't say NOIDE just IOS thanks for the try, guess I'll have to get
a bigger shovel and dig a little deeper

"foggie" wrote in message
...
HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when i'm
done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with a
AMD
mobile Athalon.




I've had that happen to me on a few rare occasions...
solved it by simply installing the dos drivers from the floppy that came
with the CDrom








































foggie

If, as you say, the NOIDE flag is not set, then the thing to do is to boot
into Safe Mode, go into Device Manager, then remove ALL drives, ALL
controllers, and the System device called PCI Bus. Then restart and let
Windows reinstall all.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"foggie" wrote in message
...
HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when i'm
done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with a
AMD
mobile Athalon.










































foggie

"foggie" wrote in message
...
"Ben Myers" wrote in
:

"foggie" wrote in message
...
HALP
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more
recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD
drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the
BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when
i'm
done
with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't
think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with
a AMD
mobile Athalon.

Start regedit on the affected computer, expand and highlight the
following key and look in the right window for "NOIDE". If you find
it delete it, then restart the computer.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\IOS

Ben

nope, doem't say NOIDE just IOS thanks for the try, guess I'll have to get
a bigger shovel and dig a little deeper

IOS is a key (keys look like a folder icon) under the key named Services, when you
expand Services.

You're not supposed to look for a key named NOIDE, your supposed to look for a value
named NOIDE.

Values are what is shown in the right-hand pane of the Registry Editor.

Select the IOS key in the left-hand pane, and you will see the Values in that Key in
the right-hand pane. Look for a Value named NOIDE...if it exists, delete it.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
AumHa VSOP: http://aumha.net
DTS-L.ORG: http://66.39.69.143/

"foggie" wrote in message
...
i have installed win98sE dozens of times........and on the more recent
comps and mobos have had no trouble with Win98 finding the D:CD/DVD
drive.
This time, once done installing, no D: drive. It shows up in the BIOS,
and I use a boot floppy that gives me the R: drive/CD-DVD but when
i'm done with the install, nothing. Anybody else have this problem. I don't
think
it's a hardware problem , but in case, the mobo is a K* PCCHIPS with
a AMD mobile Athalon.

Start regedit on the affected computer, expand and highlight the
following key and look in the right window for "NOIDE". If you find
it delete it, then restart the computer.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\VxD\IOS
Ben

nope, doem't say NOIDE just IOS thanks for the try, guess I'll have to get
a bigger shovel and dig a little deeper

See the following link. If this isn't helpful, please repost with more
information, including the manufacturer and model of the CD-DVD
drive.

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/PCCWebSite...nuID=3&LanID=2

Ben