Joseph,

I suggest you go into device manager/system properties, select PCI Bus and
REMOVE it.

Reboot the PC and let Win95 do it's thing.  You will have to reinstall any
drivers that may be required.

Worked for me before!

Good Luck!

Tim Klymkow

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph T. Baptista Jr. <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 07:18 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive and CD ROM Problems


>A friend asked me to fix their daughter's PC.  While she was at
>college, someone installed a network card on her PC and since then all
>heck broke loose.  Her CDROM would not work and neither would her
>sound.  I removed the network card, both physically and through WIN95.
> I also ran WIN95 system "diagnostics" such as scan disk and defrag.
>Still no sound or CDROM.  Also, in System Properties under "Hard Disk
>Controllers" it lists a CMD PCI 0640 PCI to IDE Controller.  However,
>under this the "Primary" and "Secondary" have exclamations next to
>them and it is "single FIFO".
>
>FYI:  Packard Bell Pack-Mate 7120 1.0 GB  120Mhz 16 MB RAM and 8X
>CDROM.
>
>Then, I went into setup and set-up the CD ROM.  In WIN95, I can see
>the CDROM and use it; however, under system properties, it does not
>list the CDROM.
>
>Then, in safe mode I removed "everything" and restarted WIN95 several
>times as WIN95 loaded the hardware.  Still no sound, no CDROM and the
>hard drive is listed as above in System Properties.
>
>help!  What can I do next?
>
>Joe
>