CD Rom Not installed

[Dave Fox]

I have WinME (OEM), ASUS K7V mb., Acer 6x4x32 CDRW. I hosed the initial installation from my vendor. I reformatted drive, used a bootdisk to load cd driver and installed from OEM CD. After installing ME the CD Drivers disappeared. I tried putting them in the autoexec.bat and config.sys but when I rebooted it renamed these files to autoexec.bak and config.bak. I have tried everything I can think of. Help

[Paleo Pete]

I don't know much about ME, but you might try removing the CD ROM from Device Manager and restarting the computer, let Windows find and reinstall the hardware. Do this preferably in Safe Mode, and remove all CD ROM devices shown. Works with 95/98, but I'm not sure about ME.

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[Dave Fox]

Originally posted by Paleo Pete:
I don't know much about ME, but you might try removing the CD ROM from Device Manager and restarting the computer, let Windows find and reinstall the hardware. Do this preferably in Safe Mode, and remove all CD ROM devices shown. Works with 95/98, but I'm not sure about ME.


My problem is I don't have the CD Rom show up in Device Manager at all. On my Hard Disk Controller I have showing the Via Bus Master PCI IDE Controller but the primary and secondary IDE Controller have the ! showing. I have tried to load the drivers over and over and reinstalled WinME many times. Don't quite know where to go next.... Any more suggestions ?

[nadiakym]

hi, do you have an ide patch that came with your mobo?
sometimes loading a patch for your chipset can fix ide probs!
check the website of your mobo.

[PostCode]

Is it booting into compatability mode? Check the system configuration manager and see what's being enabled and what's not at boot up.

[Paleo Pete]

The exclamation point in Device Manager should point to the problem. I'm not sure how to get to the troubleshooter in ME, you might try double clicking the ! or right clicking it.

And check Post Code's suggestion too, it could be that the ! is because of the IDE channels running in MSDOS Compatibility Mode

The MS Knowledge Database (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q130/1/79.asp) has an article about it, and some info on solving it.

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[Reid]

Nadiakym's post reminded me that VIA recently released a 4in1 driver update with some Windows ME fixes. Might be worth checking out.

As far as the ME differences, I spent $49 to have it eat up more RAM and keep my IRDA port from working. I'm glad I kept Win SE on a separate hard drive.

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