1.  I know exactly what you mean:  when the system boots up, the following
message displays on-screen:  FOUND CD-ROM : MATSHITA CR 574.

2.  The drive has always worked fine; never had any problems.

3.  The CD-ROM was part of the original system when I bought it in October
1995.  Since then I changed the motherboard, display card, RAM etc. Only the
floppy and CD-ROM are devices that came with the original system.  Both are
still working fine.  Please note that I have no difficulty whatsoever
installing NT4, Corel Linux, Windows 95 (fat16 and fat32), software
applications such as Office Suites, Anti-virus utilities, any third-party
applications that come on CD, accessing clip-art CDs.

4.  I am at a lost at the moment and I really don't know what to do.  I
followed Bob Wright's instructions (refer to the thread) but I am still
stuck.  I searched the Panasonic (Matshita) Web site and found a file named
(58x_9x.exe).  I might as well give it a try and start all over again.

5.  As an alternative, it has been suggested to me to temporarily connect my
system to an external CD-ROM device and simply dump the CAB files on to the
HD and then execute the setup.

6.  Finally, I don't want to buy a new CD-ROM simply to install Win98, mine
is still working fine.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ultra <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 07:23
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Cannot Install Win98


>Well, when the  computer boot up (cold boot), can you see the message on
screen
>says "Find CD-ROM" or something like that (this message is on same screen
of
>boot-up report harddisk)? If not, did the CD drive work before? It is
possible
>that one of most important IC chip is already damaged on the CD drive
(usually
>you can see the chip under the drive if you take off the cover). If this is
the
>case, you have to replace the drive (unless you can work on it to replace
the
>chip).
>
>there might be compatibility problem too, I have seen this kind of problem,
old
>CDROMs work fine with old mobo, but not new one. You didn't say the CDROM
is
>original (with system) or not, so that I'm not sure about it.
>
>Jun Qian
>
>Sylvie De Roy wrote:
>
>> motherboard is ASUS P55T2P4 with latest BIOS revision 207, flashed 1
month
>> ago.
>>
>> Onboard PCI IDE Enable    :    Both
>> IDE 0 Master Mode              :    Auto
>> IDE 0 Slave Mode                :    Auto
>>
>> IDE HDD Block Mode Sectors    :    HDD MAX
>
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