Rand, thanks for the reply. After exhausting all possible solutions I
decided to try Scanreg /restore and restored a backup registry from two
days previous. This fixed everything. I guess this should have been
higher on my list of priorities. Apparently, I had somehow corrupted my
current file somehow.

Regards,
Alan Priol.





Alan,

If you are getting that boot message and the drives don't work in
Windows,
you probably have 2 separate problems.

The OEMCD001 reference is what I've seen to be the CD /D: parameter for
many
OEM's.  This is used in the device driver loading in CONFIG.SYS as a
name to
match with when invoking MSCDEX in AUTOEXEC.BAT or DOSSTART.BAT.  Your
problem here appears to be that the DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH command in
CONFIG.SYS has been removed or commented out.  However, this should
affect
the availability of a CD ROM only in DOS mode.  To repair, either track
down
your OEM's CD driver (OEMCDROM.SYS or something like that) on your
system OR
make an emergency startup disk through Windows and copy the file
OAKCDROM.SYS from the diskette to your hard drive.  Then add the line
DEVICE=C:\{your path}\OAKCDROM.SYS /D:OEMCDROM to CONFIG.SYS (replacing
OAKCDROM.SYS if you found your original driver.)  If your CONFIG.SYS
doesn't
have a line like LASTDRIVE=Z, add that to the end, so DOS will have
enough
drive letters to work with.


Good luck,
Rand Blunck
Why Not Try Computing
Glendale, AZ


> When I booted up today, I was missing my CD and DVD player. They were
> working OK yesterday. There is a message at boot-up "Device driver not
> found OEMCD001. No valid device drivers found". These units are
detected
> in the BIOS and during the POST. I reinstalled Windows 98 over itself,
> but this has not fixed anything. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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