i have pentuim III 450 with asus mother board and one cd rom . i've installed a acer cd-rew cd rom on my computer and when i log in my netware(client32) network i have by default from my server network drives from F to Z and when i go in to my computer i don't find my two cd-roms ,i've tried to reinstall win95 and nothing has changed but when i go to system properties i see on my 1 and 2 ide controller(single info) a exclamation mark what to do next??? also when i log in my ms client only i don't see my cd-roms too suggestions????

Do a search in the Registry for "NoIDE" >no quotes< and see if it turns up an entry. If so then change the value from 1 to 0 (that'd be a zero). Then reboot. You could also try going in Safe Mode and deleting any ghost entries from device Mangler. Just a thought

I got exactly the same problem, the same day. I've done a lot of investigation, spent hours on support lines, tried all sorts of things. For me, the IDE controller will simply not accept the Sony CDRW. The Microsoft Knowledge Base has some ideas to try - in particular, check if your IDE controller is one listed as having problems with serialization - in : http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q151/9/11.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0.

Well, I've fixed this by going into the BIOS and disabling the secondary master (the CD Writer), then windows picks it up ok. Strange, but true.