[RESOLVED] CD-ROM will not read any cd-rom disks

[College_guy]

I upgraded an older computer (IBM Aptiva 2159S7H) from Win95 to Win98. This system has the split media console which contains the floppy drive and the CD-ROM drive separate from the tower.
The CD-ROM is an 8x Matsu****a CR-593.
After the upgrade the CD-ROM drive worked okay. Then I ran the Microsoft Year 2000 Update CD-ROM and installed the Win98 year 2000 updates and Internet Explorer 5.0 off that CD-ROM. After that I received a fatal exception 0E message, and now the CD-ROM will not read any cd-rom disks that I have(even in DOS). It is recognized in the Device Manager as Working Properly.
I can eject the cd-rom disks by right-clicking in Win98. The cables are plugged in securely, but I have TWO IDE controllers listed in the Device Manager: one is Intel 82371SB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller
and one is a Standard ESDI/IDE Controller.
The CD-ROM is connected to the IDE controller listed as Standard.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

[cabal]

I would try a new cd rom drive just to rule it out. I have done things like this too and the drive could have been going and now is just gone. The two devices in device manager are normal.

[PastorKenn]

Before you yank the CD, Is it in your config.sys (real mode)? Just wondering, I have had similar problem with one of my Aptiva's found putting it in real-mode cured the problem

[KWB Teck]

Another thing you might want to try is to boot to safe mode. Go to device manager, hard drive controllers. Delete anything you see there then re-boot.
It's possible that the error you got durring the update did not complete while making changes to the ide controllers. This will allow the update to finish itself.

[condor]

I think you may have cofrrupted dome files in the upgrade.

boot with cd-rom support (floppy) and copy windows 98 Cab files to a folder (c:\w98inst)

in windows Run SFC.exe and restore cdfs.vxd from the cab files.