Hi, I have a Audiodrive ES1868F ESS sound card which my cd-rom drive is connected to. I can not seem to get the cd-rom drive to work and the system asks for a MSCDEX.exe file to load the cd-rom or something. I have the cd-rom drivers but I can not install them because win95 keeps asking me to put in the win95 CD which I can not since my cd-rom drive is not working. The system device says the sound card is working fine and has all the drivers but I can not hear any sound through the pc, maybe because I don't have any speakers connected?? only the internal speaker which does not make any sound. My cd-rom drive is a Sony CDU311 and I have made sure all the cable's are in right places. It's set to master since it's the only drive on the cable. I have been searching the net for help and I have learned that there have been problems with this sound card when you are connecting a cd-rom to it, but I can't figure out exactly what I am to do to try to fix the problem. The cd-rom drive is quite dead!! LOL, it's like it's powerless, it does not go off at all, and I can not open the door or anything. Can the drive act this way if it lacks the right drivers? Help!!! Arndís

For the sound card you do need speakers plugged in! The CD Rom door should still open and close with/without driver, Check power supply to the drive, Look to see if you have another power plug in the box not used and try that in the CD Rom drive,

Arndis, boot from your floppy that has cdrom support and copy the win95 folder from the CD to the hard drive. Then when the system asks you to put in the Win95 CD, point it to the win95 folder on the hard drive instead.

Disregard response number 2 Arndis. If win95 doesn't recognize the cdrom drive you will have to load the driver using config.sys and autoexec.bat. You will need a line something like the following in config.sys devicehigh=c:\cdrom.sys /d:mscd0001 You will have to alter the c:\cdrom.sys to the location and name of your cdrom driver And a line something like the following in autoexec.bat loadhign c:\windows\command\mscdex.exe /d:mscd0001 Make sure that the line in autoexec.bat points to the location of your mscdex.exe file

Your Sony CDrom is probably proprietary. That means that Windows will not find it unless the the sound card is working. It is not an IDE drive which the computer can automatically detect and install. You will have to load the correct drivers for your sound card which can be found here: http://www.esstech.com/Technical/drivers/downloadable/drivers/driver.htm#These Next, expand the driver to a folder or floppy disk. Go to start menu, then to settings, then control panel. Scroll down to system and click. Use device manager and locate your sound card (If its listed there.) Next, doubleclick the sound card listing and go to driver up on the top. Choose update driver or reinstall driver. Refer the add new hardware wizard to the folder you stored the driver in and that should do it.

First of all, take the jumpers off the cd rom drive. Do not set it to master. Windows will set it by default to secondary slave. This is where it is supposed to be and it is ok to be there. Second you need a boot disk that has cd rom support on it. This one will do nicely: CD ROM BOOT DISK Now follow advice of post #1 and check your power supply plugs to see they are secure and plug in a set of speakers to plug that says speakers, not mic or line in. Now reboot using boot disk you just got from above. Good luck, Terri

to Terri K. win9x bootdisk will not activate a cd-rom attached to the sound card. if yo7u do not believe - try it sometime - as for the jumpers it should be master / slave / cable select.