🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 09:12:03 +1300, "cowboy" <cowboyz@actrix.gen.nz>
wrote:

>the hd is conencted directly to the m/b ..   now for some creative reason I
>can't even play a cd through win 95.  I can however hit the play button on
>my cd and listen to music that way (but not through the sound card) .. When
>I have some time I might try deleting the whole lot and reinstalling win95
>as last night my computer decided to reset itself several times and restart
>in safe mode.  seems to be running fine this morning but it is not feeling
>too happy.!

Ouch! It sounds as if you've got things rather messed up.

Actually I wasn't asking if the har disk was connected to the mother
board... I was asking if the CD ROM ribbon cable was connected to the
sound card or not. If the CD ROM ribbon cable is connected to the
sound card, then you definitely need to enable the sound card IDE
connection in order to use the CD ROM drive. On the other hand, if the
CD ROM drive ribbon cable is *not* connected to the sound card, you
should disable the IDE connection on the sound card. In any case, the
thin audio cable from the CD ROM drive should always be connected to
the sound card.

In your position, I'd be sort of tempted to try "removing" the CD ROM
drive from within Windows, and maybe even "removing" the sound card
too, if you're not sure it's driver are installed properly. Then shut
down the machine, open up the case, and make sure the sound card and
CD ROM drive are connected properly, and than any jumpers on the sound
card are set properly. Then when you boot up the machine again,
hopefully Windows will recognise the sound card and CR ROM as "new
hardware". Unfortunately, there's a potential for a Catch-22 situation
here, since Windows may want to access the Windows CD to load files
associated with "new hardware", and if you don't have a working CD ROM
drive, how do you give Windows the CD? If you have another machine
available, you sometimes get around this problem by figuring out which
file Windows wants, and the extracting it from the CD manually on the
other machine, and transferring it on a floppy disk.

As you say, reinstalling Windows from scratch will probably fix the
problem as well, so long as you have things connected right when you
do the reinstall. But then that takes a while, and often cause
unpleasant side effects...

Good luck!

Xorys

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