CD Drive not detected in Win98

[misaal9 0]

i recently installed win98 on C Drive. then i installed direct X 8.1. after installtion when i restarted my PC, i got a Dxdllreg error. TO VIEW THE PIC CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK (the one on the right)

 

http://www.geocities.com/rohit_diwakar/misaal9.htm

 

also when i tried to read a cd i discovered that my system was not detecting a Cd Drive. when i checked up with my system hardware properties, this is wht i saw. CLICK THE ABOVE LINK TO SEE THE PIC(the one on the left)

 

any suggestions how i can fix this WITHOUT reinstalling Win98. (i've installed win98 atleast 3-4 times this week)???

 

[misaal9 0]

http://www.geocities.com/rohit_diwakar/misaal9.htm

[Wilhelmus 1]

This can be corrupted DirectX installation.

The dinput8.dll is DirectInput driver.

 

Try to update/reinstall your DirectX.

 

Latest is DirectX 9c, which you can download from here.

[amit123guy 0]

Manmohan Singh just breaks my head off.....

[misaal9 0]

wht about the Cd drive? is it related to direct x?

[Wilhelmus 1]

Hmm...

 

Does your config.sys and autoexec.bat have entries for CDROM drives? e.g. in config.sys there can be something like this:

 

Quote:

DEVICEHIGH=C:\CD-ROM\IAMCDROMDRIVER.SYS /D:MSCD001

 

then in autoexec.bat:

Quote:

LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

 

If you have, save the autoexec.bat and config.sys under diffrent name, for backuping, then modify the lines to these:

Quote:

config.sys:

REM DEVICEHIGH=C:\CD-ROM\IAMCDROMDRIVER.SYS /D:MSCD001

 

autoexec.bat:

REM LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

 

Now reboot.

 

Also, make sure your IDE channel(s) are enabled in the BIOS.

 

You can also check your drive's configuration. Make sure it is properly connected. Make sure it is properly set to Master or Slave. Some CDROMs have a hard time working on the same IDE channel as a hard drive. Make hard drive master and CDROM slave, if you put CDROM to same ide channel. If you have two IDE channels, install the CDROM to second and make it master.

 

[misaal9 0]

i really dunno what to do..... how do i save the autoexec,bat file? when i open it, it runs in dos.

 

this is wht it says in CONFIG.SYS

 

 

 

 

 

[menu]

menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support.

menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support.

menuitem=HELP, View the Help file.

menudefault=CD,30

menucolor=7,0

 

[CD]

device=himem.sys /testmem:off

device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001

device=btdosm.sys

device=flashpt.sys

device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001

device=aspi2dos.sys

device=aspi8dos.sys

device=aspi4dos.sys

device=aspi8u2.sys

device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001

 

[NOCD]

device=himem.sys /testmem:off

 

[HELP]

device=himem.sys /testmem:off

 

[COMMON]

files=10

buffers=10

dos=high,umb

stacks=9,256

devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048

lastdrive=z

 

wht do i do now????

[peterh 1]

Open Notepad, then open Autoexec.bat from within notepad to edit it.

Win 98 does not need to load any CD Rom drivers from config.sys

so you can add a REM statement for all the Device= commands

under [CD] (except the himem.sys line)

e.g.

REM device=btdosm.sys

 

and REM out mscdex in autoexec.bat

 

[misaal9 0]

i dunno how it happened, but i restarted my PC and i had my CD drive back once again.

 

thanx anyway!

[Wilhelmus 1]

Good, you got it working