[RESOLVED] DVD/CDRW not detected in win98

Ever since I did a complete reinstall of my system, neither my DVDrom or CDRW have worked properly. Of course they will read disks when I use the mscdex line in autoexec but when it comes to installing CDRW software it doesn't recognise my CDRW because both drives are just generic cdroms (they dont even appear in device driver). This morning I decided to reinstall both drives. So I removed both drives, rebooted in safe mode, took out all references to the drives (which had appeared in device manager), shut down, installed the CDRW on its own as Master, rebooted. It's detected during startup but when win98 comes on, nothing! Add new hardware doesn't work. I read almost every post I could in this forum and tried any advice I thought applied. My Regedit doesn't have a NOIDE, so I couldn't delete that. Any BIOS setting that I'm unsure of is set to auto, it's really getting to me! The drives worked fine up until this morning. The DVD is just a standard device and the CDRW is a Philips PCRW404K. I would greatly appreciate any help anyone could give me.

First of all, Auto is correct in Bois. Then check jumper setting for both DVD/CDRW, one is master the other one is slave, let them share the same cable, put in secondary IDE.
Right click my computer, property, system performance, if your system is configured for optimal, you are fine. Otherwise run a virus check. There is a chance you get a Stealth type virus, find a virus defination disk, run clean virus. You should be all set.
Good luck!

>put in secondary IDE.

Ahh! Now I can't check right away, because I've pulled my CDRW out in disgust and put it in another machine, but I'm sure that when I start my computer, it says "detecting PRIMARY IDE" then it lists both drives. How do I go about setting it to secondary?

>There is a chance you get a Stealth type >virus, find a virus defination disk, run >clean virus. You should be all set.

I used the symantec online checker and it report 1 infected file which it claimed had YAI.Trojan. I installed another virus checker, "innoculateit!" which oddly found nothing.