At 10:31 PM 5/22/99 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi all
>been lurking for a while and now have a bit of a problem..
>I have inherited an upgraded 486 with 12 meg ram and 1 gig HD and I cant get
>the CD to work.
>It had a virus so I formated the hd and tried to reload win95 but it can't
>see the cd player,
>I tried to connect it as a slave but to no avail the thing wouldn't start at
>all..
>I've tried the bios and all it does is look for a slave drive and wont see
>the CD at all..
>The CD ROM is connected to to the sound card.. It's a creative CD rom and a
>sound blaster 16 board..
>I guess I'm asking what do I do to get the thing to reconise the CD rom so I
>can load win 95..
>I have built 3 pentium systems but this old thing has me stumped and its
>only 5 yrs old
>
>
>Bob the plumber
>http://users.gl.hardnet.com.au/blgas/
>
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