Recently my hard drive packed in and I had to put a new one in.
Now that I have replaced it I havent got any sound and it doesnt recognise my cd drive
What do I have to do
Please help
Thankyou
P.s I cant install any kind of discs or anything because the pc isnt recognising that I have a cd-rom now.
2007-01-23 05:04:18 · 5 answers · asked by Homer Baby 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Are you saying that you cannot even install windows because it doesn't recognize cd drive? Go into the BIOS and see if it is being recognized. From there be sure it's set to boot from CD.
2007-01-23 05:14:24 · answer #1 · answered by Wurm™ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, regardless what you have done or what people have recommended, you obviously reinstalled your operating system. As you can imagine, this requires a CD drive...so it does work. First, try unplugging the cables to your CD drive and then plugging them back in. This can help to re-seat the connection. If that does not work, look at the lables on the drives. If your hard drive and CD drive are on the same channel, or cable, remove jumpers from the hard drive. This sets it to a default master setting. Then, try placing the CD drive's jumper in either the Cable Select or Slave position. Give that a try. If it doesn't work, you may need to buy another CD drive. Something might have gone wrong and its possible that it is broken. You won't need to go to any driver updating sites, as Windows already has CD drive drivers on hand.
2007-01-23 13:45:05 · answer #2 · answered by StaticInMyHead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need a floppy boot disk for win 98/98se (if your comp has a floppy drive). In setup set your comp to boot floppy first... boot sequence s/b (a,c,scsi). Insert the boot disk in to the floppy drive and restart your comp, once started there will be a couple of choices select start computer/start setup w/ cdrom support and run setup again. If this doesn't work you need to edit your autoexec.bat file to load cd-rom as a specific drive on boot up. If you don't have a floppy drive you need to go in to setup and tell your comp to boot cd-rom first, but it may not work with older computers and older OS setups. As far as your sound you need to find out what kind of chip set your comp/sound card has and go to the website and download and install the drivers. Good Luck.
2007-01-23 13:24:16 · answer #3 · answered by Helpdeskpilot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What wurm said.
Also, if it was an IDE drive you installed, did you set the jumper on the back correctly?
2007-01-23 13:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by gam3fr3aks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go on line - Go to windows update & update then your looking for Drivers
2007-01-23 13:10:21 · answer #5 · answered by Sly_Old_Mole 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋