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| Sukasa Posts: 1512/2068 |
Well, I'll disconnect the CRD-8240B (or some very similar number) and see if that works... Also, apparently earlier in it's life this motherboard doubled as a pyrotechnics show, perhaps that's just ocming back to bite me in the ass.
(No, seriously. The guy at the 'build your own computer' course tried to play a mean trick on me with this board... but I wound up making him bug out instead :LOL  |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2969/5072 |
Probably either those CD-ROMs or the motherboard is messed up. |
| Sukasa Posts: 1505/2068 |
I'll remove it and see what happens.
I hope that the CD-ROM drives come back though, otherwise that network will be an island in a digital sea, if you get my meaning. Yea, no CD-ROm or floppy or Zip drives available if that happens (so no reinstalling Windows 98 either  )
EDIT: Removed the Zip drive, and it made no difference. Also, now my secodn monitor won't work... Windows lets out a one-second beep from the PC speaker whenever it tries to turn the card on, and doesn't. Tomorrow I back up all my files to the other PC on my network, and see about reinstallign windows, assuming that I can get access to the CD-ROM drives through the BIOS' routines... if not, then that's it for that computer. 
EDIT2: Okay, What the Fuck? this morning I turned it on, and the display worked fine, that's good. so, I reinstalled the Ziop drive because all uninstalling it did was remove the only way I had of backing up files with a chance of porting them to another ocmputer, and that all worked... then, I enabled the secondary IDE channel (I had disabled it through the iwndows 'Disable in this hardware profile' option last night), and now my CD-ROM burner has come back online. W. T. F. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 2960/5072 |
Sounds like that zip drive is the problem, but I can't say why exactly. Do things go back to normal if you remove it? |
| Sukasa Posts: 1500/2068 |
This... is fucking shitty. For some reason, Windows 98SE isn't recognizing my CD-ROM drives anymore... However, my BIOS (PheonixBIOS Release 4.0 release 6.0.B) recognizes the CD-ROM disks every boot... becuase it's set to auto-detect all my drives for now. Also, whenever Windows is booting up, I get a couple of long pause where the cycling palette at the bottom of the boot loader image just stops. Around the same time, my Master CD-ROM drive also stpops responding until the boot loader unfreezes.
Now, I checked the System dialog in Control Panel, and according to the error message for the Secondary IDE channel, I've got a code 11 on that particular piece of hardware - Either it isn't there, it's bad hardware, or it's got no drivers... however, it IS there and functiosn for the BIOS, and the driverfs are installed; they're the same files as the drivers for the Primary IDE channel, which is working fine. Now, I had a similar problem with my Primary IDE channel a while back; it too had an error, but it was less severe and only the Slave HDD would not be recognized. I've recently installed a Zip 100 drive and Restorer2000 onto this computer, would either of them be the culprit? TWICE, and only twice after I installed the Zip drive did the CD-ROM drives appear, and they were drives F:\ and G:\. IS it possible that this is a Windows driver / Iomega driver issue? There are no conflicting device errors with the IDE channels or their controller... And please help, because my floppy drive doesn't work either, and I have onyl one Zip drive, which means that that computer can't do any file work, 'cept over a network to another comptuer without the CD-ROM drive problem (just a hit-or-miss CD-ROM drive I haven't gotten around to replacing yet that won't work). Oh, adn taht otehr PC has a faulty floppy drive too for the moment... I think that one's disconencted. |
