ok, i'm going to try and load new drivers for the cdrom. I've downloaded them from LG and according to the directions I need to create a bootable disk to load these from, however it says that it needs to be done from win98 or win95 which i don't have running.
how can i create...
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chadc281
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Last Activity: 07-02-2005, 07:32 AM
Joined: 06-07-2002
Location: Alabama
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Here's what I did before the problems started. Maybe this will help figure it out.
My brother was having problems with his computer, he said it was real slow, etc etc. So, i went and tried to defrag his HDD but it was indeed very very slow. So, I decided to just reinstall windows for...
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well, when the problem started, it was as follows:
Primary IDE
Master: WD 80g (Drive C & D)
Slave: WD 80g (Drive E & F)
Secondary IDE
Master: LG 32x cdrw (Drive G)
Slave: LG 52x cdrom (Drive H)
As of right now, i've changed...
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i've tried a cdrom from a different computer, but it did the same thing as the others.
the win98 floppy wasn't able to install the drivers for the cdrom when it was booting. it would try to install the drivers and then say "no device found...aborting installation" so once it...
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Asus A7N8X DX
Athlon XP 2100
1024mb PC2700
(2) WD 80g HDD's
Chaintech GF3 Ti200
LG 52x cdrom
LG 32x cdrw
If have set the bios to boot from the cdrom first, however if i leave the HDD on there as even a second or third boot device, it'll just boot...
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yes the floppy is working good thank god. i almost did that fdisk with the 98 floppy a few hours ago but i chickened out. the reason why is because i took my slave drive which doesn't have an OS on it and made it the only master drive and then tried to install windows like it was just from scratch but...
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i am completely stumped over this, i've been messing around with drivers all day but i'm not making any progress. it seems like something has gotten into my drivers files in windows. that's the only thing i can think of because .exe driver files seem not to work at all and the others i've downloaded...
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ok...i uninstalled the secondary ide channel as you suggested, rebooted, the 2nd ide was reinstalled automatically and i still have the same problem. the cdrom shows audio cd's.
I tried using my old win 98 boot disk and cd. The boot disk starts to install the cdrom drivers and then says...
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just to give more info:
I tried to install windows on my other hard drive, but the bios says "floppy disk failed (40)" i press F1 to continue
on the next bios screen, at the bottom it says "verifying...pool data" but then it gives me an error about a...
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got some weird problems, i could use some help please
i'm having some issues that i don't quite understand. i think i might have a virus of some sort but norton says i don't. my computer took close to 4 minutes to boot up when it usually only takes around 30 sec. once i got the desktop showing i noticed that everything seems a little slower, somewhat sluggish....
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