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milehigh · February 9th, 2003, 06:01 PM

I'm rebuilding with assorted parts an old Packard Bell M415 system to send to my father-in-law [because least $ possible]. Specs as follows:

mainboard -- ? [original]
CPU -- Intel P166MMX [original]
BIOS -- Award 1.14 [original]
RAM -- 64 DIMM
OS -- 95 [original]
Video -- on board ? [original]
Controller -- standard IDE/ESDI hard disk controller
CDRW to install -- Iomega CDRW 8x-4x-32x and/or Matsushita CR563B (latter from anther PBell system]

Finally got the thing booted, but cannot get either the CDR or CDRW to work. I have a 95 CD and a 98SE CD, so I wanted to upgrade to 98SE; obviously that isn't gonna happen until I resolve the CD issue.

On boot, I get this message [moer or less]:
CD Device Driver Version 4.10
Matsushita-Kotobuki Elec. Ind. Ltd
Device Driver Name = MSCD0001
"Interface board or CD-ROM drive not ready"; missing file
"WINDOWS\system\UMM32\BIOS.VXD"

If I attach the Matsushita CDR to either IDE cable I get a freeze at the beginning of boot. If I take it off it goes through all the jazz listed above. When I hook up the Imoega drive, everything is fine except the CDRW doesn't work.

Anybody have any great ideas about using what I have to get this thing working?

February 9th, 2003, 06:01 PM	#1 (permalink)
milehigh Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 70	rebuilding old 166 -- CD's won't work I'm rebuilding with assorted parts an old Packard Bell M415 system to send to my father-in-law [because least $ possible]. Specs as follows: mainboard -- ? [original] CPU -- Intel P166MMX [original] BIOS -- Award 1.14 [original] RAM -- 64 DIMM OS -- 95 [original] Video -- on board ? [original] Controller -- standard IDE/ESDI hard disk controller CDRW to install -- Iomega CDRW 8x-4x-32x and/or Matsushita CR563B (latter from anther PBell system] Finally got the thing booted, but cannot get either the CDR or CDRW to work. I have a 95 CD and a 98SE CD, so I wanted to upgrade to 98SE; obviously that isn't gonna happen until I resolve the CD issue. On boot, I get this message [moer or less]: CD Device Driver Version 4.10 Matsushita-Kotobuki Elec. Ind. Ltd Device Driver Name = MSCD0001 "Interface board or CD-ROM drive not ready"; missing file "WINDOWS\system\UMM32\BIOS.VXD" If I attach the Matsushita CDR to either IDE cable I get a freeze at the beginning of boot. If I take it off it goes through all the jazz listed above. When I hook up the Imoega drive, everything is fine except the CDRW doesn't work. Anybody have any great ideas about using what I have to get this thing working?