Let's back to basic, the first thing you need to do is check "Device
Manager", is there anything wrong? Do your IDE controllers work properly?
If things looks alright in Device Manager, from Control Panel -> Add New
Hardware, let win95 re-detect your CDROM.
If you still can't get CD back, download whatever the latest driver for your
mobo chipset (eg. Intel chip installation software + Intel ATA driver v6.0
for Intel chips, VIA 4in1 for VIA chips, ...), install chipset driver may
bring your CD back.
Still not work? then try another IDE cable, make sure the red side match
pin1.
After all, if you still can't fix the problem, your CD drive probably dead.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olushola" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 2:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] I'll try this again: Can't Dectect CD ROM Drive


Hi.
The boot sequence can't detect the CD Drive. I think I may have erased some
files accidently during a cleanup process (uninstalling).

I'm assuming all I need to do is download some generic 95 CDROM drives and
install them from the floppy, right? If so, where can I get them.
 I don't have the original disks?


It is on the secondary master.  The BIOS secondary is set to auto detect. I
changed it to CDROM but when the boot sequence came to the secondary master,
it said that ATAPI is not comaptible or something like that. So I changed it
back to auto.

The OS is 95 and I'm able to access my programs it just that the CDROM is
not present.

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