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cdrom not working
Name: Ravi Date: August 6, 2004 at 10:09:44 Pacific OS: w98 CPU/Ram: 256mb
Comment:
I don't exactly know why my system became slow,cdrom not working.when I boost my System in Ms dos mode i see DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND: IDECD001 NO VALID CDROM DEVICE DRIVERS SELECTED. any help to resolve this problem is appreciated. Thanks Ravi.
Name: rayok Date: August 6, 2004 at 12:25:47 Pacific
Reply:
Your CD may not work in DOS as you do not have the DOS drivers installed for it, see if it works if you boot from a boot disk ! Your system may be running slow as it is detecting a fault with the cd rom. It may be failing (or have failed) or simply one of the cables has become unplugged
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Response Number 2
Name: jubalsams Date: August 6, 2004 at 19:18:28 Pacific
Reply:
DEVICE DRIVER NOT FOUND Look in config.sys to see where the driver is supposed to be, for example mine is : DEVICE=C:\UTIL\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 so the driver on my machine must be in the UTIL directory.
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