Help! We've messed up my 80 year old mother's computer. We tried to install Win 98 on a Win 3.1 machine, now we've reinstalled Win 3.1 and it won't detect the cdrom. The light stays on all the time. My mom only knows how to play cd's and I need to fix it. I found in the setup the following: device=vide-cdd.sys /d:mscd001
does anybody know anything? Could I take off the lid and look at the cdrom to find out what kind it is? By the way, I don;t have a boot disk. Please help. Thanks

tell us cpu?486 or pentm? hard drive size? mb? how much mem? do you have dos disks? do you still have win3.1 disk? If you have a floppy disk for the cd rom? is there any books with the computer to tell us any numbers? what kind of mouse is it? you must tell us as much as you can find and then we will be of more help. find out this stuff and post again. ok.

Owen Prince

pentium 100, 1.? gb hard drive, 32 meg, I have dos 6.1 disks, I have win 3.1 disk, No books except a dos book, not sure about the mouse. It's at my mom's house, tell me where to look and what to look for and I'll go over and check out the thing. Thanks

you have to format hard drive then reinstall windows and MS-DOS and do not forget install CD-ROM driver.
it is happend with my'n.When i format my hard driver and reinstall windows,MS-DOS and CD-ROM driver it back like it was.

jane, oleg is correct, though you don't necessarily need to format your harddrive. windows 95 & 98 have a cd-rom built-in (the driver comes with the operating system); windows 3.1, however, does not. so the

device=vide-cdd.sys /d:mscd001

line, is asking for the driver for the cd-rom; windows 98 may have changed the orginal configuration, when you installed it. simply delete that line, save the config.sys file, and run the install program on the driver disk that came wtih the cd-rom. if you don't have that disk, you can ask around for a "generic cd-rom driver diskette", which will work just fine. good luck.

That computer will work best with win95. dos 6.1 and 3.1 have limits and were written for the 386 and 486 computers. what I would do is get a win95 boot floppy disk and start the computer with it. then go into the setup with del key as the computer starts. in there you should use the autofind to detect the hard drive. you should also see if you can set the computer to start to the cd rom from the bios. if it does then set it to do that. if not then save the changes and exit.

then restart the computer. when it starts to the floppy disk you should fdisk and format the hard drive with format c:/s

for win95. Your boot disk should have the cd rom working. you should be able to put in the windows disk in the cd rom and intall windows from there.

after it is installed you should reboot to the hard drive by removing the floppy disk and restart computer.

that is what I would do. ( I have 10 computers that i have put together from parts and they all work fine.)

Owen prince

Well wait, sounds like you are almost there...

In your config.sys file is the line:
device=vide-cdd.sys /d:mscd001
^^^Put the proper path in there... if you don't have it, search the internet for it.

Then in your autoexec.bat file should be the line:
C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:mscd001

That's all you need to get your CD ROM working.. you're almost there...