Techie question

[bigrednz]

I'm trying to fix an old 486 for a friend from work. I have installed DOS 6.22 and that works fine. I have also installed mouse drivers and a SB16 sound card both of which are working.

The cdrom is causing me problems, I have tried every jumper combo and can't get it to work thru the HDD controller card. It should work by plugging it into the sound card but it says it can't find it.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Mike.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Try reinstalling drivers.

 

[bigrednz]

Try reinstalling drivers.

I've tried several times but it still can't detect the cdrom and aborts loading the drivers.

 

[Bob Peale]

At the rsk of sounding repetitive, take a look at Powerload

They have some good guidance, plus links to some sites with universal drivers

 

[bigrednz]

At the rsk of sounding repetitive, take a look at Powerload

They have some good guidance, plus links to some sites with universal drivers

Thanks I'll check them out.

 

[Poor Yorick]

If you have to connect your CDrom to a sound card, you mite have a propreitary channel, not IDE.

Several types of proprietary channels come from CD manufactuers like Panasonic, Mitsumi, and Sony.

This site talks about it, just a little.
http://members.iweb.net.au/~pstorr/pcbook/book4/cdtech.htm

I know, I've had something like this happen b4, with my old Panasonic cd drive.