Re: can't find CD drive
How old is the motherboard and CD Rom?
I have seen some problems with Pre- Pentium II Motherboard are not recongising the newer 52x CDRoms.
At work, bossman got me hunting around for ANY CD Rom that is lower that 52x as we have about 10x Compaq P-166 to P-200 boxes with no CD Roms in them. And if we put in any thing new in there, the motherboard refused to reconised them.
However, once we get a Windows OS on there, then they detect.
Otherwise, take your hard drive out of this box and put in into another (with OS and CDRom).
FDisk it,
Format it,
The copy all the files from the Win98\ folder on your Win98 CD.
Then put the hard drive back into the computer.
Boot up into DOS.
Then type in C:\Win98\setup.exe
It should install after that.
motley said:Thank you guys for your replies. Unfortunately the computer doesn't recognise the CD drive although I can put a CD in it. If u could tell me how to set the BIOS I would be extremely grateful.
kind regards
motley
How old is the motherboard and CD Rom?
I have seen some problems with Pre- Pentium II Motherboard are not recongising the newer 52x CDRoms.
At work, bossman got me hunting around for ANY CD Rom that is lower that 52x as we have about 10x Compaq P-166 to P-200 boxes with no CD Roms in them. And if we put in any thing new in there, the motherboard refused to reconised them.
However, once we get a Windows OS on there, then they detect.
Otherwise, take your hard drive out of this box and put in into another (with OS and CDRom).
FDisk it,
Format it,
The copy all the files from the Win98\ folder on your Win98 CD.
Then put the hard drive back into the computer.
Boot up into DOS.
Then type in C:\Win98\setup.exe
It should install after that.