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I've installed a CD-ROM drive and it's driver but i dont know how to load from it.
So if you could help me it will be greatly appriciated.
Thank you.
Don't know what you're talking about - out of 5 posts now on this 'issue' my suggestion would be to pick one and stick with it. Peppering the forum over and over with (more or less) the same question is not the way to resolve a problem - it's more a method of becoming one.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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If you are using Ms-dos, did you try to make your CD-rom work with mscdex.exe?
And are you sure that your BIOS recognise your CD-rom correctly?Pat
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On a 386? Think again - not a BIOS option.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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That's quite a fantastic claim (as in unbelievable).
"Dre" or 'Andre' has a number of posts going - they're all somewhat lacking in information & followthrough.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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By the way jboy my name is Andre but everyone calls me Dre.
Well my BIOS doesnt seem to have that option but thanks for the help anyway
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Gosh, thanks - never would have gotten that on my own
Not much of a surprise that there are no CD options on your (or any other) 386.
You might try explaining.. oh, I don't know... maybe your actual problem rather than providing irrelevant details regarding your nickname.
Seven messages in, and we now know your preferred nickname, and (some of us anyways) believe that 386 machines do not have CD options in the BIOS.
Not a whole lot, in other words
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Yours would be the very first that I've ever heard of - and I'm extremely doubtful for a number of reasons. 386 CMOS are pretty primitive, and the CMOS itself was pretty much introduced with that class of machine. CD-ROM support has to be patched into older machines (386, 486, early Pentium), via DOS etc - the CD was considered an addon and would not have been a BIOS option.
I suppose it's possible that a proprietary drive could have been setup that way by the manufacturer - just seems damned unlikely
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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try a p1 onwards, you might need a generic driver to set up your cdrom drive to work in the autoexec.bat. I used a generic driver on mine and it worked, though i cant access music cd's only ones that have been burnt. and i cant play audio cd's.
Ratboy
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CD drivers are loaded from config.sys - Microsoft's CD-ROM Extension, Mscdex.exe loads from autoexec.bat.
Common knowledge.
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