installing driver when booting

[em]

I got an old P166 with everything formatted. I have located the drivers for sound card and cd rom. (The cd rom is controlled by the sound card.) I want to install win98 from cd so need to get the cd rom working and sound card working. Do I need to modify config.sys or something? to install the sound card drivers. Wher can i find basic instuctions on how do do this.

[AlienDyne]

You can download and use a Win98 Bootable Disk with CD-ROM support.

Try here:
www.bootdisk.com

[em]

i have tied win98 boot up disk and have managed to load correct cd rom driver but the message i get is CDR101 Not ready reading drive R. Do i need to load sound card drivers before the cd rom drivers?
My soundcard is creative CT2980.

[Student^2]

If the CD-ROM is controlled by the sound card (such as an older Sony) then yes you do have to get the sound card drivers loaded first. It doesn't sound like you have that, though, since the 98 boot disk could initialise it.
Try connecting the CD-ROM as slave on the same IDE cable as your hard drive.

Oh, yeah -- make sure the drive letter is the same on the driver and on MSCDEX.EXE, or you will get that error.
hmmm... I think I remember you will get that error if MSCDEX isn't loaded at all.

[em]

How do i tell for sure the cd is controlled by the soundcard? the cd is toshiba xm-5702b. as nothing else has working i was assuming it was. If it is i have the creative sound card drivers -what do i do to install them when booting? i checked the connnection and drive letter as above to no avail.

[KamuelaJedi]

Well if you can, plug the HD into another system and copy over the win98 cd to it, then put back into the original system,boot into dos and run setup... works everytime ;-)

[em]

Thanks i hooked the hdd up to another system and was able to load windows. the sound card has loaded ok (i think) but now theres still a prob with the cd rom. the correct driver is loaded but when trying to access the cd drive i get "drive not ready" message. i am thinking the drive must be faulty. have not yet tried another one yet.

[Platypus]

"Drive not ready" may well indicate a faulty drive. If the "busy" light flashes when you put a CD in, which is the drive trying to register the disk, but still returns not ready, the laser lens may be dirty, but otherwise is probably a failure.

Does it have a headphone socket on the front and a manual "play" button? If so see if it can play a music CD. If not, it is faulty or dirty.

[Sly]

The XM-5702B is a 12X ATAPI CD-ROM

Using the sound card ct-2980 the drivers for it have to be loaded first, than the cd-rom drivers, this one for the cd-rom, and these are the drivers fot the sound card

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