I just installed a new Amptron PM-8400A motherboard with a VXPRO chip set and AWARD BIOS. Also installed 32Meg SDRAM, AMD K6 200, and three MAXDOR IDE hard drives (210 Meg, 340 Meg, and 1.6 Geg), MITASUMI 4X IDE CD-ROM drive. I am trying to install a Busmastering driver to reconize the dual on board VXPRO PCI IDE ports. I downloaded a driver VXPROIDE.ZIP, extracted it, followed all instructions, only to find it does not reconize my CD-ROM Drive "L:". I did notice a speed increase in accessing my Hard Drives. I am currently using the Windows 95 default driver and all is working, but I would like the speed increase I noticed with the other driver.
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My sound card has no IDE port it has a SCSI port.
I have not tried a real mode CD-ROM Driver.
Re-detecting did not work. I tried this atleast half a dozen times with no errors it just didn't find it.
In the Device Manager it shows that have a CD-ROM when I boot with the standard Windows 95 Dual IDE Driver. When I boot with the VXPROIDE Driver it detects nothing.
The VX chip set is manufactured by INTEL.
After detecting with the standard driver, I change to the new driver and the CD-ROM ind the Device Manager is gone and my L:\ Drive disappears.
I am not totally sure which bulletin board I downloaded this Driver from (Award, Amptron, Intel, ect.),I think it was Amptron but I cant find it again.
Thanks
Thank You for your help, but I miss informed you on the Chipset. I told you it was an INTEL Chipset but it is a VXPro PCIchipset part number PC82C437VX and PC82438VX, manufacture is not known, that is installed on my Amptron Motherboard PM-8400A see http://www.amptron.com/dow
I have not yet tried the real mode driver yet. Where do I install it at?
Again thanks for your assistance.
After installing your new ide drivers,
make sure config.sys has a cdrom driver, and AUTOEXEC.BAT has mscdex.exe in it
ie, config.sys:
device=cd_driver.sys /d:mscd0001
autoexec.bat:
\path_to\mscdex.exe /d:mscd0001
/d: =is for the most part, immaterial, AS LONG AS THEY ARE THE SAME IN BOTH.
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by: IkonPosted on 1997-06-30 at 07:57:43ID: 1749142
try connecting the CD-ROM to the EIDE controller on the sound card, by moving it off the main EIDE bus you may be able to access it as normal & your other drives with the newer drivers.
The other option is to load real mode CD-ROM drivers (you won't notice any speed problems as it is only a 4x drive anyway) this will also loose a bit of conventional memory to the drivers. Hope this helps.
Did you try re-detecting your hardware or did it come up with an error about your CD-ROM?? Take a look in device manager.