🚀 go-pugleaf

 I meant to say cd not hd.  sorry...  now however i have my cdr on ide2 and
i WAS going to put the cdrom in with it but I have no power connectors
left??!!!  BUMMER>>  SO will have to wait till tomorrow before it gets
fixed.   The cdr can create mp3 without the analog cable so I have given up
on trying to fix this cd.
Xorys wrote in message <3804cefa.17030876@beta-news.direct.ca>...
>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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