Comment CD-ROM Driver voodoo (Score 1) 686
Back in the Win98 days I had a homebuilt computer with some 4x CD-ROM drive, that I don't remember the name of. The problem was, that when booting from the Win98 CD (did a lot of reinstalling those days...), the standard drivers on that thing woulnd't recognise th CD-ROM drive. For some time I just had a bootdisk with the drivers that came with the drive and everything went smooth - that is, until that disc went fubar.
Well, I was young at the time and had plenty of time to allocate to such problems so I found a solution: Rebooting with the disc tray open and closing the drive during POST worked. When done like that the Win98 standard drivers would load for the drive.
Today I have no idea of just how I go the thought "Hey why don't I reboot with the drive open", and I Don't remember if tried sacrificing goats to the Computer Gods.
/idle
Well, I was young at the time and had plenty of time to allocate to such problems so I found a solution: Rebooting with the disc tray open and closing the drive during POST worked. When done like that the Win98 standard drivers would load for the drive.
Today I have no idea of just how I go the thought "Hey why don't I reboot with the drive open", and I Don't remember if tried sacrificing goats to the Computer Gods.
