At 07:28 AM 09/16/1999 , Mark Hayden wrote:
>Problem 1: my cdrom shows in bios, show on boot screen, works with the HP
>recovery disk, but doesn't show and isn't accessible in any way in Windows.
>Problem 2: in Device Manager, under Hard disk controller, It shows an Intel
>82371ABPCI Bus Master IDE Controller. The primary and secondary IDE
>controlllers both have exclamation marks on them but show no conflict. Under
>Performance it says that drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file
>system.  Eveything else (sound, multimedia, etc.) works fine.
>
>The Autoexec.bat file is as follows:
>
>@echo off
>C:\PROGRA~1\MCAFEE\VIRUSS~1\SCANPM.EXE C:\
>@if errorlevel 1 pause
>REM To make a DOS Boot Diskette; See the file C:\DOSBOOT\DOSBOOT.TXT
>path C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
>SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2
>SET SNDSCAPE=C:\WINDOWS
>SET SST_SCREENREFRESH=60
>SET SST_RGAMMA=1.70
>SET SST_GGAMMA=1.70
>SET SST_BGAMMA=1.70
>
>The config.sys is as follows:
>
>REM To make a DOS Boot Diskette; See the file C:\DOSBOOT\DOSBOOT.TXT
>[common]
>dos=high,umb
>buffers=40
>device=c:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off
>DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
>rem The below DOS CD ROM driver is not required to run Windows 95.
>rem DEVICEHIGH=c:\cdrom\FDATACD.SYS /D:IDECD000 /C:170,15,376
>
>The computer is a Hewlitt-Packer 8240, 233mhz P-2, 64 megs ram. Diamond
>monster video card (device manager shows this as 3dfx Interactive Inc.
>(VooDoo)). The cdrom is a Gold Star 8240 24x cdrom.


The problem is your system is not using the bus mastering drivers
for your IDE controllers.  Windows is not able to find the CD rom
drive due to this issue, that is what those exclamation marks are
about.  You will need to find the proper drivers for your motherboard
and install them, they will be called the BUS MASTERING Drivers.  They
are probably on the installations disks that came with the computer
or you should be able to download them from Hewlett-Packard's
web site, but they are not there as I checked:
    http://www.hp.com/cposupport/swindexes/pv8240_swen.html

The other thing you might do is check to see if the resources for all
the drivers need to be changed, double click on each driver and
click on the resource tab.  Then, try to change the settings till they
work, (the primary will want IRQ14 and the Secondary IRQ15).  If
this does not help, try entering Windows in Safe Mode and returning
to the Device Manager.  Delete out all the drivers listed in the
"Hard Disk Controller" area.  Then restart, letting Windows reinstall
the proper drivers.  Some times this can will need to be done
several times before it solves the problem, as Win95 is problematic
about Hard Drive Controller drivers, if they are not properly installed
the first time.

I wish I had more to offer here...  but, the problem is in your IDE
controller drivers.




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