Install a CD-RW internal drive
I have a Windows 98 pc with a DVD drive. I purchased a Memorex CD-RW internal drive to install. Any advise would be appreciated. I have installed memory before and am familiar with the inside of a pc; however, I have never installed an additional cd drive. I need the cd-rw drive to backup many of my word and excel documents. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Spot on NOBUS
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I attempted this morning to install my new CD-RW drive. I check the existing DVD drive and the jumper on the drive was under MA which I assume is Master. I then took the cable that came with my new CD-RW drive and attached it to my existing DVD drive and booted up the system and it worked fine. I changed the cable because the existing cable did not have a hook up for the additional cd-rw drive. I then changed the jumper setting on the new CD-RW drive to Slave. I connected the drive - I had several power cables labeled P2, P7, P4 etc. so I just selected P2 for the power cable. I also connected an extra audio cable to the new drive. I then booted up the system and it started a continuous beep. I now have tried to disconnect the new drive and put all back as when I started and I still am getting the continuous beep on boot up. I did check all the connections to the hard drive, etc. to make sure nothing came loose. Please help!
with a continuous beep, you have or : no videa - check the card if it is seated, or no Memory, so take them out and reseat them, one by one
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I did reseat the memory chip and in fact had to move it to another slot for it to read my 128k of ram -- and then everything booted up fine. Both drives are working and I did burn a CD on my new cd-rw drive. Strange thing, if I put the cd I burned in the old DVD drive it does not read it. I brought it to another pc and I could read it fine (the other pc does have a cd-rw drive). However, when I put a CD from a manufacturer like Symantec in the DVD drive it did read it fine and began installation. I don't know why it would read my burned CD in the old DVD drive?? But anyway, I do appreciate everyone's help - I couldn't have done it without you !!
if you burned it with Nero's Incd, and did not close it, it will be unreadable in many drives.