I have an IBM EduQuest 40 computer that has a Kingston TurboChip 133
plugged into the overdrive socket, about 1.2 GB hard drive, 20 MB of
RAM, and an off brand but SoundBlaster compatible soundcard.  I have the
CD-ROM drive connected as a slave to the hard drive and it worked fine
until I decided to plug it into  a Promise Techonologies EIDE card as
the master drive there.  I left the hard drive hooked into the IDE
socket on the motherboard.  Windows 95 recognized the CD-ROM drive and I
left it at that without using it for a number of weeks.  Last week I
bought a CD-ROM disk for my 3 year old daughter to introduce her to
computers.  When I installed the disk into the CD-ROM the drive light
lighted up indicating to me for a second that it was accessing the setup
files.  Next thing I knew the monitor blanked out and the computer
re-booted.  I tried again -- same thing.  I tried another CD-ROM disk
that I knew worked in the past for me.  Same story.  I removed the EIDE
card and reinstalled everything as it was before with the CD-ROM hooked
as the slave to the hard disk.  Guess what!  Same story.

This seems to only happen in Windows 95 as the CD-ROM works when I boot
up using the previous version of MS-DOS although that's since I put it
back to the slave to the hard drive.  It did have problems under MS-DOS
when the EIDE card was installed.

My guess is either a bad CD-ROM drive, conflicting IRQ's, or a problem
with the connection with the HD.  As a matter of fact I did not check to
see if the HD is set for master/slave jumper settings.  That might be
the problem.

Anyway I thought I'd throw this out for anyone's advice.

Thanks.

Dick

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