Re: help needed................!!!

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From: Brian Dodgson
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00

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On 31 Oct 1995 02:39:22 GMT, mhaag@ix.netcom.com (Mike Haag ) wrote:

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>the only way my computer will recognize my cd rom is through windows..
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>i dont know the seetings for the rom bios startup for drive d for a cd
>rom..
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>who can help..
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>thank you           mike

Are you talking about windows 95? Anyway, the cdrom is not setup in
the bios. It is activated through 2 dos device drivers. The first is
the low level driver specific to your sound card/cdrom, and the second
is mscdex. Make sure both are in configsys/autoexec.

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From: bigbird@melbpc.org.au (Brian Dodgson)
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Date: 1995/11/09
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