Windows 98SE not picking up CDRW drive properly

[Guest]

I have just upgraded my PC and am in the middle of re-installing all my software. However, there is a small problem with my CD writer. It is not appearing in MY Computer or Windows Explorer. I can see the drive listed in device manager. If i do a quick restart, i ca get the drive icon to appear again. The drive can "burn" normally, and read ok too. Any one got any ideas? My current PC setup is:

AMD thunderbird 1.1ghz
Asus A7V
256mb Ram
geforce 2 ultra 64
sb live
hp 9100 internal series CD rewriter
2 x IBM hard drives

Thanks

Rob

 

[Guest]

For anyone who maybe interested, the problem was resolved by disabling DMA transfers on the CD Writer's Device Manager's properties. Shame it will castrates its fast read performance.......oh well 😱)

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by placid on 01/30/01 04:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[nalaree007]

A couple of things you can do:
1)Make sure PnP is set on in the Bios.
2)Also, there are issues with the VIA IDE drivers, uninstall it and use Window's default drivers.