Re: CD ROM drive problem

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From: Adam
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 11:07

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I faced the same problem and have almost the same hardware except that my
mother board is Gigabyte GA-5AA. I suspect that the Ali Aladdin IDE
windows driver is giving the problem. The performance of this driver is
very erratic no matter how many times I install the IDE driver. Sometimes
it can recognise the CDROM drive and sometimes it can,t. I suggest that
you try to get the latest driver update form Ali website. In my case I
decided to delete win98 Se and install Windows Me and let it detect my
hardware and use it as the default. I have no longer face such problem
ever since.

WebWalker wrote:

> Frequently my motherboard's bios cannot detect CD ROM drive. The
> drive's light will go on permanently and the tray is not ejecting
> after the button was pressed.
>
> Can anyone give me some suggestion??
>
> CPU -- AMD K6-2 500mhz
> Motherboard -- Gigabyte GA-5AX
> CD ROM Drive -- Asus 50X
>
> No loose cables and the CD ROM drive is quite new (less then 6 months
> old).
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> WebWalker
> webwalker@eudoramail.com

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