🚀 go-pugleaf

God this has taken hours....

I just installed a GoldStar 4x (GCD-R540C) CD Rom drive and a SoundBlaster 16 
Value into my 486DX 33MHz pc. Other info: 8Mb RAM, 128Kb CPU Cache, 210 Mb IDE 
Hard Disk.

Sound card works OK. First problem was getting the CD drive recognised. 
Eventually realised you had so change the IDE port setting on the sound card 
from tertiary (default factory setting), to secondary, and change the IRQ line 
to 15. CD Rom set as Master. Aha! Can now see CD drive, DIR command pulls up 
lots of files and directories. OK to screw the lid back on...

I can do a DIR on the CD Rom drive ("E:" on my system), copy files from it, but 
not run anything. I can even play *.WAVs from the CD through Windows, and 
audio CDs work fine. 

But from DOS, system just hangs when you try to run an *.EXE file from the CD. 
In Windows, a variety of errors occurs when you try to run a program from the 
CD, inc lack of memory, GPFs, etc. These happen when trying to run the 
setup.exe from MS Office CD or Corel Draw CD, for example.

I did see once that the DIR command gave an incorrect file listing for the CD 
Rom directory. Funny...

Maybe a DMA conflict? I tried removing the only other card in there (network 
card, I think DMA=0 anyway), no joy. Otherwise only a video card and the disk 
I/O card.

Here are my autoexec and config:

@ECHO OFF
@REM  THE CHECK LINE BELOW PROVIDES ADDITIONAL SAFETY FOR STACKER DRIVES.
@REM  PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE IT.
@C:\STACKER\CHECK /WP
PROMPT $p$g
PATH C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\;C:\DOS;C:\DOS\BATCH;C:\NWCLIENT;C:\UTILS\PCTOOLS;C:\WINAPPS\ODAPI;C:\STACKER;
LH /L:0;1,45472 /S C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET SOUND=C:\UTILS\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
SET PCTOOLS=C:\UTILS\PCTOOLS\DATA
C:\UTILS\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\UTILS\SB16\SB16SET /P /Q
C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((437) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)
C:\DOS\MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=437
LH /L:1,16656 C:\DOS\KEYB UK,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH /L:1,56928 C:\WINDOWS\MOUSE.COM /Y
LH /L:1,6384 C:\DOS\DOSKEY
LH /L:1,27952 C:\utils\CDROM\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 /L:E /V
 
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
BUFFERS=10,0
FILES=50
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
DOS=HIGH
COUNTRY=044,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,15792 =C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
STACKS=0,0 
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\  /p /e:512 
[COMMON] 
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\DPMS.EXE 
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,35504 =C:\STACKER\STACHIGH.SYS 
DEVICEHIGH /L:1,19216 =C:\UTILS\CDROM\GSCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000

I've tried booting with EMS expanded memory, no good. 

Is the CD Rom too fast.....?

Any suggestions most gratefully received.
TIA
Peter

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Peter Swanson                                         Oxfordshire, England
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