On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 06:58:38 +0000 (UTC), "Rich"
wrote:

I have two CD drives :- a teac CD-DVD, and a mitsumi CDRW. I am using Win98.
My problems started with an attempt to correct a conflict between my via
chipset and my alcatel broadband modem. I downloaded the latest drivers for
the mb, but when I tried to install, I got an error saying "registry error
please reboot"

After a couple of attempts I use norton system doctor to fix the registry.

Now my CD drives are not detected. They are not visible in my computer, nor
are there any references to them in device manager.

On startup I see that the bios sees them....

Help !!


With WIN98, I would suspect the NOIDE problem. If WIN detects an IDE
controller initialization problem, it sets a flag (NOIDE) in the
registry to permanently disable the 32 bit driver (required for CDROM
drive detection). Yea - real smart - permanently disable the driver
when one error is detected. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1
for how to clear the flag.

*LOL* just noticed. the article gives a quick fix for WIN98 involving
running a file from the WIN98 install CD. How ya supposed to do that
when the problem disables the CDROM drive?
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