🚀 go-pugleaf

Solutions for Multiple OS (US & Japanese WIN95 on same HD): System Does Not Detect CD ROM Drive

i recently received  Dell P166 with factory installed 8 Speed Sony CD Rom (CDU 311) on US Win95. For 
those using mulilingual win95 I'd like to share my following experiences:

Using Partition Magic and System Commander i created two partitions, drive C for US win95 and drive D 
for Japanese (JP) win95. After completing the installation of JP win95, the system no longer was able 
to detect my CD Rom drive on both C & D drive.

After many hours of trouble shooting, my friend was able to find the solution: 

1.  in jp win95, go to Control Panel, System, Device Manager
2.  click View Devices by type
3.  click hard disk controller
4.  select Standard PCI Ide Controller and press delete 
5.  DO NOT REBOOT AT THIS STAGE YET
6.  click CD Rom and delete sony CD Rom CDU 311
7.  exit System Properties
8.  within Control Panel, double click "Add New Hardware"
9.  choose "No" for searching new hardware and click next
10. click Hard Disk Controller and next
11. click Disk Use and type "c:\windows\inf" (to copy correct file from US win95)
12. click Intel from left side
13. from right side, select Intel PIII X Bus Mastering PCI and click next
14. Next
15. finish
16. computer will ask u to reboot the system several times

i mentioned my original problem to Dell Tech support and they were aware of this problem. they said 
that win95 does not have the most updated Intel PIIX3 chip. they suggested i download "ideinfup" file 
from Intel's web page at www.intel.com/pub/patch.

if any of u have comments to above kindly share your experiences with me, thanks.
-- 

Aloha and best regards (from Big Island of Hawaii)
Sachi Noma
Email:snoma@aloha.net