The original post said that they reinstalled Widows3.11 and then
the CDROM quit working.

If that's the case, then fiddling with the hardware should be
unnecessary.  The CDROM will just need it's driver loaded into
CONFIG.SYS and MSCDEX.EXE loaded into AUTOEXEC.BAT


Jim Meagher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of David Gillett
>
> On  4 May 98 at 20:43, Dale wrote:
>
>
> > I have a friends 486 that they tried to re-installed W3.11 on, and
> > now the CD-Rom drive doesn't work. It is attached to one of the IDE
> > ports.
> >
> > The sound board installed on the computer has an CDrom IDE
> > connector on it also. Would I need driver software and how would I
> > configure the sound board to handle the CD-Rom ?
>
>   First of all, ensure that this port and the CD-ROM are both really
> EIDE.  There were several other CD-ROM interfaces in the 486 era....
>
>   The "usual" question is "How do I *disable* the sound card's
> interface to keep it from conflicting with the second IDE channel on
> my board?"  I think that's most likely your problem, and the answer
> will depend on the sound card.  Some use a jumper or switch, some use
> a software utility.
>
> David G
>