Kav 0 Posted May 31, 2000 Very annoying problem I never really had in win9x: The cdrom refuses to read certain cd's that do work on other pc's (Intel based..) the cdrom itself is fine cause i placed it in a different pc (intel) and it worked fine with cds i cant run on my system (amd). Someone suggested changing the timeing of it. I changed PIO mode in bios from 3 to 2 but that doesnt seem to do much especially cause its on UDMA anyway. What more can i try? athlon 650 k7m bios v1008 win2k pro cdrom: Aopen 936E-AKU ------------------ Share this post Link to post
Damien 0 Posted June 1, 2000 You might try installing the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers from the website - have you installed these drivers at all? Also try putting the CDROM on a different IDE controller, and switching it from Master to Slave or vice-versa. Finally try another drive with your machine, there may be an incompatability between the cd drive and your motherboard. Share this post Link to post
Kav 0 Posted June 1, 2000 Will get those 4in1 drivers asap btw. those 4in1 are in the NT section and there is no mention of them in the win2k section..this aint a prob? update 2 : they wont run, installer aborts when it detects 2k Possible to install stand alone drivers? [This message has been edited by Kav (edited 01 June 2000).] [This message has been edited by Kav (edited 01 June 2000).] Share this post Link to post
Palos 0 Posted June 2, 2000 Try to force its controller to run in PIO mode, instead of UDMA. You can do that from device manager, IDE controllers i think Share this post Link to post
Damien 0 Posted June 2, 2000 There are sone beta 4 in 1 drivers avalible for Win 2K (V4.22) If you look at fargo's thread - Via Drivers V4.22 in this forum, you'll find the url from with you can download them. [This message has been edited by Damien (edited 02 June 2000).] Share this post Link to post
Damien 0 Posted June 2, 2000 Update - 4.22 is out of beta - you can download this and AGP driver v4.03 from Via's website - these both install under Win 2K Share this post Link to post