Disappearing CD-Roms

[lewisp]

I've been using Win98 SE without (too many) probelems for over 4 years on my PC. Recently, however, my two CD-Rom drives keep disappearing on the first boot of the day. The device manager reports a problem with the secondary IDE driver and the CD-Roms are just not there. If I reboot they appear as if nothing was wrong.

I can boot into XP (its a dual-boot PC) and the drives are there as expected.

This problem seems to have materialised since I upgraded with the recent critical patches from Microsoft.

Can anyone shed any light on whats happeneing? I have tried the old tricks of removing and replacing the IDE cables on the drives - no change.

 

[TekTippy4U]

try the old trick of removing the IDE controller from Device Manager >> Hard Disks >> Intel BusMaster Controller....boot into Safe Mode to do this....remove and reboot. Have the 98 CD handy

TT4U

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[edfair]

98 was missing the .inf file for the intel chipset used on lots of M/Bs. So the fix was to get the proper .inf from intel to insure the right drivers got loaded. Machines with VIA 4in1 drivers had the problems, too, and the fix was loading the latest VIA drivers.
This is more of a corrupted driver set that comes from you M/B manufacturer. Usual fix is delete the device and on reboot tell the system that you want the drivers from the M/B CD. But it may require the downloaded stuff.

Ed Fair
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