I have a Light on CDRW drive in my Windows 98 computer. It will not see the drive unless I load a dos driver in msdos mode & then reboot. The drive does not function properly (sometime says insufficient memory when reading cd's) It does not have insufficient memory as it has 128 megs ram in it. I went in device manager & it told me drive D: was using msdos compatibility mode which would affect performance so I deleted the dos driver out and rebooted and same thing happened, no cdrom drive again. Windows seems to need the dos cdrom driver for the drive to operate but then gives the error that drive d: is running in msdos compatibility mode. How can I get Windows to see my d: drive without using the dos cdrom driver? Any help will be appreciated. Also, I've only had this pc for 3 days as I bought it from GoodWill. I did a fresh install of Windows 98SE from the cd drive and it installed fine untill I rebooted and the cd drive was gone.

Have you installed the latest MoBo Chipset drivers and undertaken all M$ Updates ?? Any Exclamations against devices in Device Manager ??

Yes, install the motherboard drivers. Try the drivers that you have first. You might not need the latest. If necessary remove the CD drive in the Device manager and reboot. If still no luck, boot to safe mode, remove any CD drive(s) in Device Manager and reboot. Do yourself a favor BACKUP! Sorry, I do not check for private messages

No I have not installed any motherboard chipset drivers & no microsoft updates. There is an exclamation mark next to "Standard Bus Mastering Standard IDE controller" but I don't know why as the hard drives are funtioning fine. There are two in the machine & I can access both with no problems.

Gateway2000 doesn't tell us a lot about the machine, but go to their site and search their drivers for Windows 98, download and install. Without the correct drivers loaded, why would you even expect it to function normally?

Yeah, post back the model # of the gateway. 98 should have no problem seeing it unless the chipset drivers are a factor--as already mentioned. How are all the drives connected? You could also run regedit and do a search for NOIDE. Delete any references you find.