CD ROM INSTALL PROBLEMS

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I believe that reinstalling Windows 95 will fix the problem. You could also try removing the Intel IDE driver and the floppy driver and rebooting. When Windows restarts it should find both devices and assign the appropriate settings. Hope this helps

The first part of your answer may or may not be correct. I cannot reinstall win 95 with out a cd rom drive. I tried the second suggestion and it did not work. windows found the floppy upon booting up but I had run "find hardware" to find the IDE controller. I ended up with the same problem

So you can't access the CD-ROM from DOS either? You may want to check the BIOS settings to make sure it's not assigning IRQ's.

Could you please elaborate? And if it is what do I do to keep it from assigning the IRQ?

So you can't access the CD-ROM from DOS either? You may want to check the BIOS settings to make sure it's not assigning IRQ's.

sorry about that repeated comment. I'm not sure. I don't know what motherboard you have. If you have a manual for the board, it should have a section for BIOS settings.

is plug and play enabled in your bios?
have you tried using another driver to install the cd-rom?
what is the cd-rom? (you said ide but no bran name)
and are the jumpers on the cd-rom right (slave for primary ide)
(master for secondary Ide)
make sure that the bios(cmos setup)does not have drives on these
ports.
<example>
pri.master  your hard drive
pri.slave   none  cd-rom as slave
sec.master  none  cd-rom as secondary master
sec.slave   none

(if you have more then one hard drive this may very)
make sure none appiers where a cd-rom is placed
if your looking for different cd-rom driver try mitsumi's
disk inspector install it while your in dos.e-mail me at gward28@hotmail.com and I can send it to you.
hope this helps :~)

kasdas,

Check under the "Performance" tab under the "System" icon in control panel. See if any drive running in DOS Compatability mode. If it is do the following:

1. Click Start, Run and type regedit

2. When the registry editor opens click edit, find.

3. Type noide in the find box.

4. If an entry is found right click on it and click delete.

5. Close the editor box.

6. Goto Device Manager and expand your Disk Controller entry.

7. If there are three listings:
       a. Primary FIFO controller
       b. Secondary FIFO controller
       c. Master IDE Controller
(Your entries may vary in wording)
Click on the Master and click remove. Note: Your computer may or may not lock up after removing the driver. If it locks up push the reset button.

If it tries to stsrt in Safe mode, arrow up to Normal mode.

regedit found no "noide". Here is something that may help, If I remove the conflicting hardware then have windows find new hardware it installs everything just fine with no conflicts. After I reboot the cd rom is gone and I have the conflicts.

Plug the CD on the secondary IDE, during startup go to BIOS setup, go to peripherials and scroll down. You should find something like "Secondary IDE contoller" set to enable.   Save your new BIOS settings and let the startup process continue.

DON'T forget to set your CD to master, this is acomplished by the jumper in the back located above the cable connector. Also don't use IDE autodetect because it won't detect the CD.

If your problem continues please post the version of your BIOS, CPU & chipset or the long string at the bottom left of your monitor during bootup

xema,Your suggestion did not work. The computer failed to find the cd rom and I again encountered conflicts. The bios is Award Modular Bios Ver. 4.50pg. there are the following letters and numbers under this heading. These are MB-8500 Tel 06/07/95. In the lower left corner on boot it reads, 06/07/95-Triton 2A59CB0900. Also, in my bios I did not find anything saying peripherials. In "Standard Cmos Set Up under hard disks I did not have the "enable" option on the Secondary Master I had the options of auto, user and none and numbers 1 thru 45. In the Bios Features Set Up there was nothing about drives. In the Chipset Features Set Up under Secondary Master PIO I had options of auto master and Modes 1 thru 4. I don't Know what my chipset is but the CPU is a Pentium 90 Intel. Boy I hope this info helps!

kadas is it possible that you have the wrong driver for your cd-rom?
is PNP enabled in your bios?
also some hard drives have jumper settings of master,or master with slave.if your Hard drive jumpers are set wrong it can cuase
conflicts such as this one .
also as i stated above I can send you a different driver to see if that might be the problem.:~)

OK
Under Chipset
you got the following
>On chip secondary 2nd chanel PCI IDE
>PCI slot IDE 2nd chanel

Enable both

In your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat rem the lines reagarding the CD and MSCDEX.
Check that your CD is set to master

Sorry I've forgot something you may need to add an Intel Patch for Bus mastering, wich version of WIN 95 do you have.
OK
    Under Chipset
    you got the following
    >On chip secondary 2nd chanel PCI IDE
    >PCI slot IDE 2nd chanel

    Enable both

In your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat rem the lines reagarding the CD and MSCDEX.

Check that your CD is set to master

kasdas,

You have never said what the CD is conflicting with..By default the
Primary IDE is set for IRQ 14 and the Secondary for IRQ 15. Is ther
something conflicting with one of these IRQ's? If so, you must
change the IRQ of the conflicting device. You cannot change either
of the above settings.

How does the conflict show up? Is it via a Windows message?

Cumbo

kasdas,

Scratch the last message, I just went back and read the question
again. I am acting like a newby expert; sorry. The IRQ's for
both devices (floppy controller and IDE) are set by the BIOS.
They are not set by Win 95.

Is the hard drive conflicting as well?? If not and, the CD is set
as a slave on the primary, it is possible you have a bad CD drive.

Cumbo

xema, Both bios setting you listed were already enabled. I played some more and now the Intel 82371fb pci bus master ide controller that was conflicting is still conflicting with the standard floppy controller but the properties for the standard floppy shows no conflicts. The computer still cannot find the cd rom drive. I am very tired, confused and ready to say to heck with this but it's my son's machine so I'll raise the points by 50 and continue on.
Of note, I found some information on "ms-dos compatibility mode problems with PCI-IDE controllers and it sounded like my problem except there is no "noide" in my registry. The article I read said that there would be. One more thing, I am running an older version of windows, I am not sure which version.

Adjusted points to 150

cumbo, the hard drive is just fine and working well. the cd drive runs just fine in my machine and i have the manufactures installation disk with the right drivers

Three basic questions:
1. Are you shure that you are conecting the red marked side of the flat cable to both Pin one in the MoBo connector and the CD connector
2. Have you got the patch for the Intel IDE Controller?
3. Click the Start button & run  type regedit.exe, use the find function under edit and search for noide, if you find it, write in a pice of paper where it is and then delete it.

Connections are correct. search did not find a noide. Where do I find this patch for the controller?

Kasdas,
  It appears the thread has been lost somewhat...
 
  Is your hard disk the first on the IDE cable coming out of your primary IDE controller and set to MASTER ?
  Subsequently, is the CD ROM attached 2nd in line on the IDE cable set to SLAVE ?

Tim

Tim, Yes the hard disk is the first on the cable coming out of the primary ide. The cd drive is now  connected to the secondary ide port. At first it was as you asked, the second in line after the hard disk and the cd rom was set to slave. That is when the conflicts started.

My problem has been fixed but I am not sure who gets the points. It was actually a number of things that were done to make my drive work but the most important thing I think was that I ended up running FDISK, deleting and re-partitioning, formatting and doing a clean win98 install. Thanks for all your help and I will be sure to tell everyone I know with computer related problems to try the experts exchange. Thanks again!

kasdas,

Since you fixed the problem yourself there's no need to award
points unless you wish to. If you wish to award points ask the
expert you wish to award to to post an answer.

If not, post a question to Linda in the lounge to remove the
question.

Glad you resolved the problem.

Cumbo

Thank You!