Rebuild of system, old HD, No cd recognition

[Guest_imported]

I just rebuilt my system. A new case, motherboard, processor, memory, and cd-rom. I am using my graphics card from my last system and my Hard drive from my last system. After I booted up for the first time after plugging everything in the system did not see the cd-rom drive. I see it in the bios on boot but when 98 loads I get no cd-rom. I currently have no floppy I didn't think I would need one, I was hoping that the cd-rom would cover all of my installs. The driver that came with the cd-rom said that it was only neccesary for dos run systems and windows 9x/2000 should auto-detect it. Is it possible that the cd-rom is bad? Do you have any suggestions.

Thanks for any help in advance.

--PD

 

[AlexIT]

Is there any CD listed in the System device view? Try removing this ans restarting if yes.

Alex

 

[cdogg]

Go to Control Panel->System->Performance tab. You'll notice a message here that states one or more drives are using "MS-DOS Compatibility".

The reason you ask? It's because you trying to use Win98 that was installed for the old hardware and get it to work with the new hardware. It doesn't work!

You're going to have to backup any data you want to keep, format and reinstall Win98. This is because specific hardware settings and drivers are loaded during setup. This includes processor recognition, mobo drivers, etc...

 

[cdogg]

Basically, you can't swap a hard drive from one system to another and expect to boot from it, unless the hardware is identical. In your case it isn't!!

 

[tempo21]

all the above is true... BUT

have you run the 'add new hardware wizard' ?

seems obvious but.........
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[cdogg]

tempo21,

You can theoretically use the 'add new hardware wizard', but when you upgrade the mobo and cpu, it doesn't always work. These components are configured during Windows' intial setup routine, so it's always easier and often quicker to just reinstall Windows...

 

[frosty423]

The problem might be simply in your IDE controller drivers for the new board. If you have the CD that came with it and it has an IDE utility, run that and see if it clears up your cd-rom problem.