[RESOLVED] cdrom not recognized by bios

The comps an intel 1430vx, Pentium-s 100, 32mb ram, a 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 floppy, award bios and a double speed mitsumi cd drive that uses an isa cd rom controller/sound card.
I reformatted the HD and then went to boot with a boot disk, and found that it had no cd drive detected, I set the bios to auto detect and still no good, the drive works and all cables are connected correctly. I have done this before with no problems on other comps. Do I need to use a different cd rom driver on the boot disk, and if so, which one?


Thanks

On this particular setup the BIOS will not detect your CD. You will need to boot to a floppy that has the necessary driver support for you controller/drive. The files you need should be available from the manufacturer of the ISA controller card.

I've just sent you an email containing a CD-ROM Driver that works with almost every single CD-ROM and CD-RW unit.
Add the following lines to your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files and copy those two files I've send you on the main directory of your hard disk.

Config.sys
Device=c:\cd.sys /d:cd01

Autoexec.bat
c:\mscdex /d:cd01

Then exit and save these two files and reboot your system.

Good luck and let me know if it works.

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let me know which sound card
you need to install dos then the soundcard software then the cdrom will work

I am having the same problems with my mother's computer and have not been able to install a cd-rom driver. I have tried quite a few universal. I have formatted the hard drive and have done this many times before. Can someone help as how to install Windows etc. without the cd drive?
Any help would be appreciated

You have to enter CMOS Setup (BIOS) using the "Del" key and select BIOS FEATURES SETUP. Then go to BOOT SEQUENCE and select CDROM, A, C or CDROM, C, A.

Just two things needed:
1. Your BIOS has to provide that option.
2. Your CD-ROM has to be compatible with Bootable CDs. (For examble, some Creative ones are not.)

Then put the Windows Installation CD in and boot normally. The system should boot from it.

Good luck.


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Mitsumi 2x drive???? Interesting.

All the above suggestions would work with an IDE drive but not a proprietory drive such as the Mitsumi. You will need to create a working boot disk with both the controller card drivers then the cd drivers. The Universal drivers upon the site will not work with this setup.

As it is proprietary then the bios wil not detect this drive anyway. The only BIOS's that allow you to autodetect the CD like a HDD are the AMI & some of the Phoenix. The only Award bios I have seen that will do this was on a Microstar board with an Ali chipset. That is beyond the point though, a proprietary drive would not be detected anyway.

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You're right, Darren.
But he (logixtekz) posted his topic in two different forums... for example: http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...ML/002665.html

He wrote in his post, what he has Mitsumi FX-001D CD drive (I'm used to use same drive, it's IDE 2x drive,no sound card needed).
He tried to connect this drive to IDE channel, no result.
But few minutes later he deleted his post.
Why?

Gabrielle, please write a bit more info about mother's system (CD-ROM model, for example).

Ruslan, I am not too sure but I presume her's is a mat****a CD-ROM CR-584. I have tried a win95 start up - nothing, I have tried installing my drivers-nothing. On startup it does say "Found CDROM : OTI-Hermes", It is an Award Modular BIOS and does not have an option of CDROM in the boot sequence. How do I make a working boot disk?
Thanks Gabrielle

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gabrielle:
I presume her's is a mat****a CD-ROM CR-584.
Matsu****a( Panasonic (tm)) CR-584 is an IDE CDROM (8x-speed, as I remember). So, this CD have to be recognized by BIOS (being connected as IDE device on secondary IDE port)and listed as one of IDE devices. Of course,only if it Pentium (or better) MoBo and CDROM drive is good.
I have tried a win95 start up - nothing, I have tried installing my drivers-nothing. On startup it does say "Found CDROM : OTI-Hermes",
If comp show name of device correctly, I'd assume, what You installed drivers for CD incorrect,wrong drivers, or missed MSCDEX in autoexec.bat,or lastdrive=Z(letter) in config.sys .
If no, probably You have bad drive,sorry.
It is an Award Modular BIOS and does not have an option of CDROM in the boot sequence. How do I make a working boot disk?
Update MoBo' BIOS. It should solve booting problem (new BIOS usually have multi-boot option).

If the sound card is a Creative SoundBlaster with an IDE CD port onboard, you will have to get a file called sbide.sys from creative and load that in config.sys to get the drive recognized. The port on the sound card will be recognized by the bios if the card is a plug and play device. It will grab an IRQ (usually 11), but it will not be a bootable device because it is not recognized by the bios as a primary or secondary IDE controller device.

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Jeff Lawrence

[This message has been edited by jeffsr (edited November 15, 2000).]

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[This message has been edited by shawnMt (edited November 17, 2000).]

Hey Boss,
Be nice now...the man is asking for some help with his present equipment...without having to buy additional equipment. That's why he is getting so many replies...mostly because he is asking nicely.
Anybody with money can go buy almost anything.
DonJ


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Hey, it's all FM to me!

Got the same problem with a packard bell 486sx 33mhrtz after a format lost the communication between the bios and the rom drive, it's a matsu****a 563 ie panasonic..
crazy huh.. hehe.. at least its a secondary puter for my son . but would still love to get it running , any sugestions?? if any of you know the sound card in interagle not removable , tried all the config and autoexec commands with no luck ,. only thing I may know of is to find windows 95 on a floppy if thats possible.. ??

Sorry for the blowup everyone....It was a very bad day.