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    Well the reason we check the drive in Dos Mode is to make sure the drive
works at all, so that if it doesn't we can get the drive replaced as soon as
possible.

Our drives under W2K use the Windows standard drivers, written by Microsoft.

Thank you,


--
Chris Gilbert
Creative Labs
Technical Support
www.soundblaster.com


Eric Lambert <lamberteric@videotron.ca> wrote in message
news:9g3ba3$hgk$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> The problem isn't to make your CD-ROM work in DOS but W2K, I'm sure DOS
will
> work fine my Grand-Mother could write a driver for DOS, I guess W2K is too
> hard for you guys because there's not 1 Creative CD-ROM I worked with that
> works FINE at 100% in W2K.
>
> P.S. W2K means windows 2000 if you didn't know
>
>
> "Chris Gilbert (Creative Labs)" <cgil@clok.creaf.com> wrote in message
> news:9g0vdq$7uk$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> > I would suggest trying the drive in Dos to see if you get the same
> results.
> > You may also want to check all of your connections and make sure that
> > everything is hooked up properly.
> >
> > In order to make a bootable floppy disk with IDE CD-ROM drivers:
> >
> > 1)  Create a bootable floppy disk (format a:/s)
> >
> > 2)  Download SBIDE121.EXE, and extract the files into their own
directory
> > (like C:\SBIDE).
> >
> > 3)  Copy SBIDE.SYS from C:\SBIDE to the floppy disk.
> >
> > 4)  Edit the config.sys on the floppy and add the following line:
> > DEVICE=A:\SBIDE.SYS /P:170,15 /p:1F0,14 /D:MSCD001 /V
> >
> > 5)  Copy MSCDEX.EXE from C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND to A:
> >
> > 6)  Edit the autoexec.bat on the floppy and add the following line:
> > A:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /V
> >
> > 7)  Start your computer using the boot floppy.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chris Gilbert
> > Creative Labs
> > Technical Support
> > www.soundblaster.com
> > Mike C <Bruticus@the-beach.net> wrote in message
> > news:9g0d72$qtc$1@news.creativelabs.com...
> > > I have a Creative 52X CD-Rom and it doesn't want to work, when I put
in
> a
> > CD
> > > it just makes My Computer inaccessible for a few seconds then it
ejects
> > the
> > > disk. WHat is wrrong with my CD-Rom,.. can I clean it or something
what
> > else
> > > could it be? Im running Windows 2000 with it.
> > >
> > > Thanks,. please email me at bruticus@the-beach.net
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>