nycyn
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posted on January 12, 2002 01:22:27 PM new
So here I am, trying to fix my old 486 for The Kid. I thought it needed a new CD-Rom, but I guess it didn't because Windows still can't find it. To resolve this, I'm supposed to insert the start-up CD...
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bidsbids
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posted on January 12, 2002 03:24:53 PM new
And even if the CD ROM worked you can't use it in Safe Mode if you had to. Why does Windows disable the CD ROM in Safe Mode?
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stopwhining
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posted on January 12, 2002 03:30:06 PM new
your kid deserves a PENTIUM.
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Ozziegirl
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posted on January 12, 2002 04:15:22 PM new
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cheers,
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XaNeX
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posted on January 12, 2002 05:11:50 PM new
Does the motherboards bios recognize the cd-rom?
If not, that is your problem.
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nycyn
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posted on January 12, 2002 06:03:46 PM new
stopwhining: LOL! Come babysit so I can moonlight and buy him one!!!! Hee!
and yeah, the motherboard doesn't everything he/she said.
already put it up under antiques on eBay!
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XaNeX
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posted on January 12, 2002 07:04:17 PM new
case closed!
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honaker5
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posted on January 14, 2002 12:30:14 PM new
www.virtualdr.com
Great place for problems...........
Tim
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sun818
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posted on January 14, 2002 12:49:45 PM new
You can put Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a 486/33 with 32MB of memory and it will run Netscape 4.7x just fine. Perfect for basic web browsing... nothing fancy. Even if you don't have a CD-ROM as long as you have an network card in it, you can install Red Hat via FTP.
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DeSquirrel
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posted on January 14, 2002 09:04:40 PM new
The bios detection of a CD rom will not make it be seen in Windows. You're problem is most likely that the mb you are using uses an ALI or VIA chipset. If so windows needs an interrupt driver to properly operate devices. If you look in device manager the hard disk controller more than likely has a yellow flag on it.
This assumes of course that the IDE channel that the CD Rom is on is turned on and if it is the only thing on the channel, the jumper should be set to master. Most are shipped with a default of slave.
You can either download and install the ide drivers for your motherboard or do an over the top install of W98se by booting from the CD or floppy. W98se will have the nec. drivers for the chipset.
1) check the IDE channel is active
2) Check the master/slave setting.
If the board has an Intel chipset, delete the IDE controller and let Windows re-install it.
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paloma91
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posted on January 14, 2002 09:19:14 PM new
If you boot up into regular Windows and you try to run a CD and it doesnt run, there may be a few reasons why that is happening and pretty easy to fix or replace.
Could be loose cables to name one of the things that could have happened.
Has the CD drive ever worked in Windows? What version of windows are you running now? Did you recently upgrade your version of windows? If your CD was running before, what were you doing just before the Cd stopped working?
If you are running in the safe mode, you will not be able to run your CD.
If you can let me know some of this info, I may be able to help you.
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