First, Is the sound card cdrom interface ide? if so, you should disable
the soundcard's cdrom interface and move the cdrom to the secondary ide
port on-board. If it is a proprietary interface, I would disable
secondary ide in cmos if you are not using it to free an IRQ for the
soundcard. If you have an ISA soundcard you probably have to run the
dos install utility for it to set up the card for plug-n-play. The few
ISA soundcards i have used could not be configured by the BIOS for plug
and play, but could be by the soundcard's dos install utility. Refer to
the soundcard manual if you have one. Thereafter, the bios would sort of
work around the soundcard during plug and play initializing and
everything would work without conflict.
Second, you may have to include the dos driver in config.sys for this
cdrom. A properly installed ATAPI cdrom will have its drivers loaded
during windows startup, so pre-loading drivers in config.sys is
unnecessary. However, if the drive is not being recognized by windows,
loading drivers in config.sys will force windows to add it to device
manager. I would experiment to see if the rem should be removed from
autoexec.bat for mscdex, keeping in mind that the /D: parameter would
have to be changed to match the /D: parameter used with the device=
command for the soundcard's dos install utility driver in config.sys.
As I said before, this all assumes you are using an ISA soundcard that
does not plug and play well.
If you have a PCI soundcard, they typically use the Secondary IDE
interface for a cdrom, so you may have a conflict with the ide port
where the new cdrom is installed. Go into cmos settings and disable the
secondary ide channel and see if that doesn't fix it.
Tom Turak
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Griffiths [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:39 PM
I'm struggling with an old CD ROM that plugs into a sound card for the
interface rather than through the IDE. When I loaded Win95 on this
machine, I temporarily attached a modern CD ROM to help speed the
install, it was as one would expect, attached to the IDE controller on
the motherboard. The problem is that now that I have detached the new CD
ROM and reattached the old one to its sound card, Windows fails to find
it. Add and Remove new hardware doesn't find it either. Can someone tell
me how to resolve this. The unit does work. It is a Creative CD ROM and
plugs into a card from the same makers with model number CT2260. I
downloaded drivers for the sound card okay, but am lost as to what to do
with the cd ROM. For those interested the Config.sys has "Device =
C:\WINDOWS\Himem" and Autoexec.bat has " rem - by Windows Setup -
C:WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /V". I take it that Windows remarked
the Autoexec entry because it failed to see the device, once the newer
CD ROM drive was removed.
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