Re: Old cdrom
- From: paulmd@xxxxxxx
- Date: 14 Apr 2006 00:21:02 -0700
Jonny wrote:
Updated circa year 2000 board with a more current 2005 board and cpu/RAM,
replaced hard drive.
Installed XP SP2 on one partition. Copied 98SE from original hard drive to
new one. Installed system commander for dual boot manager.
Stripped drivers updated 98SE drivers, all is fine including cdrom.
Problem is cdrom in XP. Some cds may be visible, and do a partial
installation then quit. XP at that point can't even find a CD media
inserted even though it is inserted. Don't have the same problem in 98SE at
all, even with same CD media.
Tried 3 different cdroms, all circa 98-99 manufacture dates on them. 2 have
results noted previously, one doesn't recognize any CD media in XP. Bios
see all 3 at boot time.
I did replace the old (7 year old) 40 wire ribbon cable with an 80 wire
ribbon cable. All work on other older PCs and in 98SE on the same PC.
My guess is to go back to the 40 wire version ide cable as this is the only
thing in common. Throw me a clue.
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Jonny
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Jonny
I can throw you a couple of questions.
1) Is this a clean install of XP?
2) Do you play games that may have aggressive copy protection?
3) is there a pattern of CDs that won't work? Burns vs factory?
4) have you checked for Virii or spyware?
Yes I have seen some old CDroms not play nice with 80 wire cables. A 6
year old CDROM will not have performance benifits from the 80wire
cable.So there's really no reason to use one.
I've seen plenty of ancient 4x cdroms work perfectly fine. And I've
also seen that the faster drives don't seem as long.
.
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