CD drive will not recognize vendor disk

[dilletante]

Recently my hard disk died and I had to replace it and re-install Win98SE.

I did it OK and everything is working fine, except that the CD drive will not recognize any disks from software vendors that start up automatically when you put them on the drive. These disks test out OK on another computer; the drive reads CDs I've written and plays music. When I put a vendor disk in the drive, the green light goes on as the drive searches for "something", but it never finds it, and gives a "not ready" response when I run WinExplorer and try to get a listing of the files on the drive.

The jumper on the drive is set to MASTER. I tried it in 2 different connectors on the motherboard; it works the same way on either connector (which I assume is a channel).

I did not change any BIOS settings, though obviously things are different on the motherboard--I had to install a board to support the disk, which is 160 Gigs (vs about 20 for the old drive that died).

This has to be a problem with a setting somewhere. Anyone ever had this problem?

[Miz]

Go to Control Panel>System (or right click My Computer, left click Properties). Expand the CD-ROM category, double click on the CD drive listed there. Go to the Settings tab and make sure the Auto insert notification is checked.

If it is checked, do you have TweakUI installed? If so, check the settings for the CD drive on the Paranoia tab.

Finally, if it still doesn't auto run and you're comfortable poking around in the registry, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer and make sure the Value for NoDriveTypeAutoRun is 95 00 00 00.

[dilletante]

Go to Control Panel>System (or right click My Computer, left click Properties). Expand the CD-ROM category, double click on the CD drive listed there. Go to the Settings tab and make sure the Auto insert notification is checked.

If it is checked, do you have TweakUI installed? If so, check the settings for the CD drive on the Paranoia tab.

Finally, if it still doesn't auto run and you're comfortable poking around in the registry, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer and make sure the Value for NoDriveTypeAutoRun is 95 00 00 00.

The control panel was the first thing I checked. AutoInsert notification was checked. I do not have TweakUI installed.

I'll check out the Registry--I'm comfortable with that.

Do you know where I can find out about the other settings for the drive, e.g. the DMA box?

My guess is that the problem with not autostarting, and explorer not recognizing the disk, are related--if not different aspects of the same problem. Clearly the drive is operating properly, and the CD ROM itself is OK.

I'm wondering if this could be related somehow to the BIOS, since I did install that ATA controller for the disk. The BIOS shows all the disk options as AUTO.

Tnx for taking the time to reply.