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I am sure this is not a new problem so my apologies to those who have
seen this problem before.

First some background.  I have a pentium 90 system with 16Mb of ram
and a Creative 16 PnP soundcard and a panasonic CR-581 quad speed
CDRom player.

I have warp blue spine on CDRom.

I used to have warp installed quite happily with Win95 on my duel boot
system.  I took it off to free up some space for some software I no
longer require.  Now I want to re-install it onto the same system.

When I first installed warp, I had a Vibra 16 (not PnP) soundcard with
the same panasonic CRRom drive.  The soundcard recently died and so I
purchased the Creative 16 (PnP) card.  It still installs the same
Vibra16 drivers onto "C" drive and installs the same lines into my DOS
autoexec.bat and config.sys files.  So you think it would be the same
only with plug and play capacity.  This is where the fun starts
because now when I insert disk 1 at the prompt it returns a bright red
error message saying that the system cannot locate or operate any
CDrom drives.

I used to be able to install warp quite easily with my old soundcard
and CDRom combination, but the drivers on the Disk 1 install disk are
not able to locate the CDRom drive attached to the soundcard.

I have tried the following three things:

1.  I removed the file SBCD2.ADD from the config.sys on Disk 1 and
downloaded the updated Creative CDRom drivers from the net.  I can't
remember what the driver is called (something like CCRD2.ADD) but I
installed it to the config.sys file but had no luck, the system still
could not recognise the CDRom drive.

2. I then downloaded the file WARPINST.EXE file from hobbes.  I read
on the web that this file updates the drivers on install disk 1.  I
followed the instructions and the new updated Disk 1 was created
successfully.  Unfortunately it still did not recognise the CDRom.

3. I then made a floopy disk copy of the system using the makedisk
command on the CD.  I then proceeded to install the software from
floppy disk.  I now have the software installed, but I have no sound
from the soundcard, despite the install routine recognising the
Soundblaster card and installing the Soundblaster driver, and I have
no access to the CDRom drive which means I cannot load any of the
programs off the bonus pack.

What should I do next?


Stephen Anderson
Intellectual Property Officer
BHP

Email
(home) steveja@werple.net.au
(work) anderson.stephen.sj@bhp.com.au