My BIOS reads as follows Page 1
Diskette Drive A 3.5 floppy
Diskette Drive B not installed
ZIP as A or B Off
Drives
Primary Drive 0 - Auto
Drive 1 - None
Secondary Drive 0 - none
Drive 1 - none
that is about it. It does not tell me how to switch to page 2
Also I inspected Drive B (not installed) and there is no reference to a CD drive.
Also I did a removal and a reconnect of all the wires and is no different. Be aware that Windows 98 is in the drive so if it is reading it it should react. Like I say, the green light flickers a bit and that is all.
I have gone the route of add remove hardware so that the hardware manager would look for things not installed and it comes back empty handed.
I do not know if what I do is right, it just seems to make sense to me anyways.
Be aware that the original CD reader is back in the same machine. As I stated before, I physically swapped them but did not use them in either machine after doing the screwdriver work.
And with the first CD player(the Creative - it works in its original pc so there is nothing wrong with the device.
The Benq was suppose to be a functioning device its own pc cannot see it right now. I am tempted to check the 4 pin wire(IDE?) that comes off the mother board with my multimeter to make sure there is no breaks in the cable itself. But I think I am going overboard.
As far as I can tell, the CD drive is no longer registering as being there