re: Hardware seen/not seen Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 10:01 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by slimbobartlett (2 messages posted) Thanks, I found out what was wrong, finally. these two (the cd-rom and cd-rw) didn't like being on the same cable with the hard drive, and had to be put on the secondary ide to work. Thanks again for the info tho On Friday, December 15, 2006 at 7:06 pm, dhm wrote: > >I had that happen a lot. > >I had a cheapie CDRW that took a long, long, long time to warm up to read anything >and frequently I booted up and found Win98 had given up on it. That is, the BIOS >just acknowledges it's there, Win98 expects it to perform. But I don't think that's >your problem. > >I also had problems with the settings in the hardware screen. That's Start > >Settings > Control Panel > System > Device Manager . Check the settings for >CDROM and Hard Disk Controllers. > >Then check the master/cable/slave jumper on the CD drive. Does that match what BIOS >setting is? Do you have it set for master on the jumper but set for slave in Hard >Disk Controllers? > >I've done that, too. Recently. When I replaced my bad hard drive. > > > > Written in response to: re: Hardware seen/not seen (dhm: Friday, December 15, 2006 at 7:06 pm) Responses to this message: re: Hardware seen/not seen (dhm: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 11:12 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Hardware seen/not seen (slimbobartlett: Thu, Dec 14, 2006, 8:23 am) re: Hardware seen/not seen (dhm: Fri, Dec 15, 2006, 7:06 pm) re: Hardware seen/not seen (slimbobartlett: Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 10:01 am) re: Hardware seen/not seen (dhm: Tue, Jan 23, 2007, 11:12 am) re: Hardware seen/not seen (Jacob6601: Fri, Dec 15, 2006, 8:57 pm) re: Hardware seen/not seen (Ed: Sat, Dec 16, 2006, 7:51 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum