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smackedass
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 Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:10 am Post subject: Ugh, '95! |
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Hello,
Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running Windows
'95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke. I removed
the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it recognized by the
OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is enabled, and
recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master, as a slave, and
as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have been an
appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got "The
selected location does not have information about the device".
My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
Aptiva site.
The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
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Mister
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:14 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, '95! |
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I'm leaning towards it is too new. However, it could also be that
particular brand and its drivers. I just looked through my stock pile
of parts and realized I threw everything that was old away a few
months ago. Take a look at eBay. You might also want to try a
DVD-ROM drive. While you might not be able to play video on it
without a decoder card, it might work well for data.
In any case, I did a quick lookup and found this driver:
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=182
It might be the same one you found for DOS, WIN 95 and 98.
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:10:35 GMT, "smackedass"
<kemanospamcomputer@verizon.net> wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running Windows
'95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke. I removed
the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it recognized by the
OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is enabled, and
recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master, as a slave, and
as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have been an
appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got "The
selected location does not have information about the device".
My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
Aptiva site.
The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
smackedass |
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smackedass
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, '95! |
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THE DRIVER WORKED!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
First I had to pay for the driverguide.com Pro Membership, that I'd been
meaning to do that, anyway, that was $49.95, and I'm making $65 off of the
job, so that works. And, now I can get whatever I want for a year from
driverguide.com
Thank you, again!
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Barry Watzman
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, '95! |
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There were some older drives that had 40 pin interface cables which were
NOT IDE, but rather a proprietary interface. If this is OSR2 with USB
support, you could try an external USB drive. You could also try a PCI
IDE port. The problem might be the port and not the drive.
smackedass wrote:
| Quote: | Hello,
Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running
Windows '95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive
broke. I removed the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get
it recognized by the OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it
is enabled, and recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a
master, as a slave, and as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what
might have been an appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it
at that, got "The selected location does not have information about the
device".
My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
Aptiva site.
The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
smackedass |
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Andy Barkl
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: Re: Ugh, '95! |
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He said is was a Aptiva running Windows 95. I think you meant a PS2 and not
a OSR2.
"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:46c398d3$0$11038$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
| Quote: | There were some older drives that had 40 pin interface cables which were
NOT IDE, but rather a proprietary interface. If this is OSR2 with USB
support, you could try an external USB drive. You could also try a PCI
IDE port. The problem might be the port and not the drive.
smackedass wrote:
Hello,
Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running
Windows '95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke.
I removed the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it
recognized by the OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is
enabled, and recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master,
as a slave, and as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have
been an appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got
"The selected location does not have information about the device".
My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
Aptiva site.
The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
smackedass |
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Dan Stephen
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smackedass
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| Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: Re: Ugh, '95! |
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Dan,
Problem solved, correct driver did it.
Thanks for responding.
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