I think this is one of those situations where you should put the new CD
player in and boot up and see what happens.  If you are lucky, it will work
fine without you doing anything.  Since you don't have a CD, if your
installation cab files aren't on the hard drive, Windows may prompt you for
a driver.  Go to the PCBuild site and download the universal CD driver and
have it on a floppy just in case you need it.  It's at
http://nospin.com/pc/files001.html .  If that doesn't work, you could also
go to the manufacturer's web site and try to find a driver.

Ben Moore


----- Original Message -----
From: Jimi Moore
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:58 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Installing replacement cd player


> Hello
>
>           Well nobody answered my last post titled "dead cd player" but
> I thought I would try this one.
> What would be the correct procedure for replacing the above mentioned
> dead player?  Should I do the "add/ remove hardware" routine before I
> remove the unit? Then install the "new" (actually a slightly used one
> from a friend) player and let Win95
> recognize it and use the win95  generic driver?  My friend doesn't have
> the driver for the player but says it will work with the win95 driver.

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