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AM>I have a problem at the moment, where, when I connect my CD-Rom up to
AM>my sound card and turn the power on the CD-Rom does not power up but th
AM>machine boots normally and can't find the CD-Rom.

AM>I thought that I might have done something stupid like plugging the
AM>ribbon cable in the wrong way, so I swapped one end around.  When I tur
AM>the machine on the drive powers up (the busy light comes on as normal)
AM>but then the machine does not even start to boot up (nothing comes up
AM>on the monitor).

AM>Has anyone come across something similar to this and got any ideas how
AM>I can get my drive working?

AM>The SB has been installed correctly and the lines in the config.sys and
AM>autoexec.bat for the CD-Rom are the same as the ones I had for the
AM>previous sound card (with the exception that the cdmke.sys line now has
AM>the SBP paramater rather than just a P parameter).

AM>Cheers,

AM>Andrew Mills
AM>amills@colonial.com.au

Andrew, if all your hardware connections are OK, you usually get a power up 
light blink on start up (but not necessarily the busy light) and the 
computer should boot up OK. If the machine boots up then the ribbon is 
round the right way! From experience I suspect your connections are fine 
and it's a software problem you're facing. You don't mention whether 
mscdex.exe is in your autoexec. Run through your CD-Rom installation 
programme a couple of times and look for alternate settings (eg different 
com settings or something), sounds more like your problem is there. 


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