[SOLVED] Prolinea 4/50

I'm working on a compaq prolinea 4/50 and i can't get it to recognize the cdrom drive. I have reinstalled the drivers for the controller card, but it is still a no go. The drive was working fine until i uninstalled some hp printer software. Now I cannot install anything because i dont have cdrom support.

The system is using windows 95 with 12mb ram. The cdrom connects to a controller card that came with the computer. The controller card then plugs into a riser board that plugs into the motherboard in the machine. Please if someone knows anyway for me to get back the usage of the cdrom.........POST!!

Thanks.

 

I think you are going to need real mode drivers for the cdrom. Have you checked Compaq's website?

Take a look at the autoexec.bat and config.sys.....are the real mode drivers loading there?

 

i did a prolinea once ,i think she is right you can go to compaq .com and find the cd rom drivers you need.if it isnt the drivers i had a similar problem with mine i had to stick the cd rom and hard drive on the same ide cable.my problem was the hard drive wouldnt detect.you can also call compaq because that is a commercial destop model they will support it.but try going and downloading those sofpaqs at compaq .com

 

I went to compaq's site and navigated through their support section. I picked the following information:

software & drivers >> desktop prolinea series >> Prolinea 4/50 >> Windows 95.

The updates they have listed didnt appear to be what i need. I also checked the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to see if there was a cdrom driver being loaded. There wasn't. So i found a generic cdrom driver disk and installed it. Now when the computer boots up it says :

"CD-Rom driver not ready"

Wrong Driver? Or just something i need to change?


UPDATE:

I then tried to copy one of the files off of a windows 98 startup disk. I copied Oakcdrom.sys to the hard drive and told the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to load the driver. The computer boots up normally. I get a cdrom icon in My Computer, but it will not read any cd's. When you try it pops up a box that is empty and says 0 objects in folder. Also in device manager there is no entry for the cdrom drive, but there is a new ide/esdi hard disk controller. There was already one there before, but this one has an exclamation mark on it. I checked the properties and it says that all the drivers are not installed for this device.

Now what?

 

I managed to find a longer cable and attatch the cdrom to the same cable as the hd. Now the cdrom works fine.

 

Have you tried reading more than one cd?

Is the cdrom working from dos? Try booting with a bootable floppy with cdrom support and pop a cd in the drive and try to get a directory.

 

the crabman was right about putting both on the same ide cable then????? how about that candy who was that masked crabber

 

lonesome, it would be better if you didn't go back and edit older posts....it makes other postings after yours look moot.

and supertech, it's a well known fact that you are crabman.....

 

damn ill go use the puter in the other room

 

sorry, didnt mean to confuse anyone.....
Thanks for all the help though.