I also have the Creative 2x cd and it has to be connected to a sound card
with the appropriate interface.I have an old soundblaster 8 bit sound card
that has it. I think it is called an MKE(?) interface.
It will do the things you are seeing if you try to connect it to an IDE
connection. The plug is physically the same.
It has nothing to do with the motherboard.

Bobby

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Alan Priol
Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 10:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] VLB motherboard


Your correct, no onboard IDE and a controller card was added. The HD and the
floppy drive are working fine, but add the CD-ROM and the computer will not
boot. Setting the CD-ROM on the secondary IDE slot gets a message HARD DISK
FAILURE. Slaving it to the HD gets no boot at all, just a black screen. The
BIOS is set to boot A,C, and there is no setting for a CD-ROM. The CD is a
Creative 2X and is supported from 286 and up systems. Have tried to get a
BIOS flash update from Tomshardware.com and Motherboard.com but the BIOS
string I give gets no success.
This is the string located at boot-up: 1/4/95-85C471-48617/V2-DG-SIS-00.
maybe one of the list readers can help to recognise the M/Board from it.
Perhaps if I get a second hand PCI board from a local computer fair would be
the way to go. Still I would like to resolve this for my own satisfaction.

Regards,
Alan Priol



On 3 May 00, at 18:16, Alan Priol wrote:

> Will a VLB socket3 motherboard accept a CD Reader? Putting
> together a computer using a collection of spare parts and so far am
> unable to get the M/B to recognize the CD Reader. If this is not
> possible, will do things the hard way.

  If I recall correctly, most motherboards of that vintage didn't
include IDE on-board, and so required tha addition of a controller or
multi-I/O card to add this functionality.  That *might* be part of
your problem....

  Or it could be that your "spare part" CD-ROM drive, of similar age,
is of one of the several non-IDE interface types that were originally
common.

David G

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