Weird CD problem

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I'm rebuilding a computer for a local organization. They chose the
motherboard, some no-name SIS based system. In any case I installed Windows
2000 just fine. However when I put the CD for the motherboard drivers
nothing happens... the system doesn't even recognize that a CD is in the
drive. Putting any other CD in the drive works just fine. I even tried
swapping the CD drive and it did the same thing.

OK, so I put that same motherboard driver CD in another machine and it
reads it just fine. Tried another CD drive on another machine, no problem
at all. I put it back in the original machine I'm re-building and it
doesn't recognize that CD at all. Truly bizarre.

The only way I could get the system going was to put the Ethernet drivers
on a floppy, get the network going and then copy the files from the driver
CD disk in a networked machine to the "new" machine and install them from
there. <sigh> What a pain!

Anyone have a clue as to what's going on? I've tried just about everything
I can think of (such as cleaning the disk) and nothing works.

Sam
 
2000 is a bootlegg? burned disk? the old rom may not read burned disks.
Click to expand...

It was a perfectly legal copy of Windows 2000 from an official MS disk.
That installed from the CD just fine. In fact I just installed Office 2003
from legal CD disks without any glitches. The driver CD "appears" legit...
hard to tell though. I did swap CD drives... although both were older
models.

The motherboard is a Foxconn K7S741GXMG based on the SiS741GX + 963L
chipset. How can I tell if the driver disk is a "burned" disk or not? The
back of the disk doesn't have that blue color that a lot of writeable CD
disks have.

Sam
 
Sam said:
It was a perfectly legal copy of Windows 2000 from an official MS disk.
That installed from the CD just fine. In fact I just installed Office 2003
from legal CD disks without any glitches. The driver CD "appears" legit...
hard to tell though. I did swap CD drives... although both were older
models.
Click to expand...


no 'legal' implications implied.... i meant to ask 'drivers' disk is burned?

The motherboard is a Foxconn K7S741GXMG based on the SiS741GX + 963L
chipset. How can I tell if the driver disk is a "burned" disk or not? The
back of the disk doesn't have that blue color that a lot of writeable CD
disks have.
Click to expand...

sometimes it is hard to tell, the labling used to be a way.
I would try yet another machine with a 'newer' rather than older CDROM.
 
JAD said:
no 'legal' implications implied.... i meant to ask 'drivers' disk is
burned?



sometimes it is hard to tell, the labling used to be a way.
I would try yet another machine with a 'newer' rather than older CDROM.
Click to expand...


sigh im gettiing my coffee... Not another 'machine' -another 'ROM' ...newer
than older.
 
no 'legal' implications implied.... i meant to ask 'drivers' disk is burned?


sometimes it is hard to tell, the labling used to be a way.
I would try yet another machine with a 'newer' rather than older CDROM.
Click to expand...

Problem solved... sort of. The two drives I used were both CD-RW drives
(one an HP from the year 2000, the other Samsung from 2001). I tried
putting in a plain jane CD drive and guess what... no problem. The plain CD
drive is no newer than any of the RW drives I used. Either they both have
the same defect or there's something about the interface with Windows 2000
that was strange. <sigh>

Sam
 
I see this all the time ... mobo driver disk won't read.
What I do, and it always seems to work is take the
driver disk to another computer, and copy it to cdr.
I think many driver cds are so cheap that the data
signal they produce is too weak to read ?? Just a
guess. But, the copy always reads. Go figure??

johns
 
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