Please help, I am running Win 3.1 and Dr. Dos. I have an American Megatrends Inc. motherboard with a 1990 ROM BIOS MAGITRONIC. My main processor is 80836 and I have a Base memory of 640 KB and an EXT. memory of 7424 KB. I would like to install a CD-ROM (SANYO CRD-254P) that I have installed in the machine, but I cannot get windows or DOS to acknowledge it there. I have it designated as slave and daisy chained with the hard drive. The system Configuration on start up says that: Hard disk C: Type 47 Hard disk D: None I do not know how to go about making the computer acknowledge the CD-ROM. I have written an email to American Megatrends Inc. in hopes of getting a BIOS update that will register the CD-ROM for me. I am new to this and any help is appreciated. If any one needs more information to help me please do not hesitate to email me and ask. Oh the SANYO CRD-254P also has: ROM version: 1.02 Manufacturer date: June 95

You have the driver for your CD_ROM and the device line for it in your CONFIG>SYS? Your CD-ROM is IDE since you say you jumped it to slave. The problem is probably that a 1990 BIOS cannot run an IDE CD-ROM without its own ISA controller board. Old sound cards used to have pins for running CD-ROMs in these BIOSas.

Just download the driver to a temporary directory from here; http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~jmoerdyk/Other/sjcdapi.zip If you are are downloading this from a windows computer you should have Winzip or similar program to extract these files. Extract them to a floppy disk. Since you have Dr-DOS, you will not automatically have MSCDEX.exe on your computer. You will need it. I will email you a copy. Create a directory in DR-DOS. From the C: prompt type MD DOS copy MSCDEX.exe in C:\DOS Stick your floppy disk in and type A:install This should install the drivers and change your Autoexec.bat and Config.sys for you. Your CD-ROM drive should work after you reboot.

There are a couple of other things you should check here. 1) Make sure that your Master hard drive is on the right jumper setting. Some use the same jumper setting for Master with slave and Only Drive in system other hard drives have separate jumper settings for both situations. 2) If your CD-ROM installs successfully after that, you will still have to load some files in Windows 3.1 to enable the CD-ROM drive to play Audio CDs. Come back to the forum and ask when you get to that point if you need more help.

Ok, do I need to do the same thing if I use the IDE on a SB32 card? I currently have a Phillips CDRom. I got the sound card working, but the IDE is not recognized. Thanks, ___steven

Ok. 1. Install CDRom in your computer case. 2. Verify jumpers. HDD is master, CDRom is slave. 3. Copy files mscdex.exe in autoexec.bat. Its line is C:\mscdex.exe /v /b /d:cd003 4. Copy files atapicd.sys in config.sys 5. install newly windows 3.1 in your computer. 6. your computer from DOS register your CDRom 7. thats all. questions call me or send email.

Hi all, I'm also having the same problem, but using Win95. Don't know what's going on here, but post shows a cd-rom. I have the Sanyo crd-254-p also. It isn't there in Bios. Also, on post it shows no drivers selected and on another line it states too many parameters. Can anyone tell me how to do this in bios as well the exact wording in config and autoexe? I'm 64 and learning---thanks, Bonnie Also, when I connect the floppy drive the puter won't boot at all, but when I disconnect the cable then the puter boots, so I have no floppy nor cd-rom, and I must re-install windows because of message stating error loading gdi.exe you must reinstall windows---I sure would appreciate some help by e-mail please, if possible, and you can add this so all can see, but I may not be able to find myself back to that page---happy days