John's response here is correct.  However, I have cheated this situation
before.  I disconnected the original CD and connected a regular IDE CD to
the system (I had to pull it off my main machine) leaving the sound card in.
I loaded Windows using the IDE CD drive, then when I had it loaded and
stable I removed my IDE drive and put the proprietary one on it.  Windows
recognized the drive and got it working.

This will not always work, but it's worth a shot.

Kyle Elmblade
Distinct Computer Solutions
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---- Original Message -----
From: "John Chin" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] When a CD Rom is connected to sound card


> At 01:31 PM 03/18/2001 Stephen Hager wrote:
> >
> >       I am in posession of a Pac Hell Legend 100CD (P-66
> >24Mb Ram,428 Mb. HD, seperate sound and modem cards.)
> >Windows is badly corrupted  ... Boot disks always fail
> >to find the CD. It is attached to the sound card....
>
> Steve
>
> You have a PC of a vintage where cdrom drives on sound cards were
> proprietary, and needed a unique software driver or interface or both.
What
> is the make and model of your cdrom and sound card?
>
> Download the cdrom documentation and drivers from the cdrom drive maker.
Go
> to the cdrom maker's web site, else PB, or try driverzone.com....  You may
> also have to load the sound card drivers with a switch to enable the
> onboard cdrom interface.
>
> You have to get real mode (DOS) drivers loaded if you are re-installing
> windows, then load the win drivers.
>
> HTH...
>
> John Chin

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