CDROM Problem

[onieda]

I have a system that a relative uses to surf the net, send email, and use some office applications. It is a PII 333 with 128MB, 6GB HDD, 16MB ATI Vid, newly formatted with Win98 installed. CDROM is 24x generic, not new, but not that old.

I installed Win98 no problem, but when I put a CD in the CDROM, such as Norton AntiVirus, the CDROM sees it as a single track music CD and will not read the setup info. I have tried numerous other CD's with the same result, all CD's are originals and not copies. The only CD that it will properly recognize seems to be the Win98 CD that I did the setup with.

I have:
- Checked all cables
- Removed the CDROM and cleaned with compressed air as best that I could
- Checked the settings in the BIOS
- FDISKed once and reinstalled the OS

Any ideas? This is really baffling me at this point, and I can't get any other apps installed.

Thanks,
Onieda

 

[KingCheeba]

Did you install WinAmp or any other music players? It seems to me that maybe the files were set to default to view ALL file extensions as a music file. Maybe try uninstalling that and that might work.

If that doesn't work, try going into the device manager and making sure proper drivers are loaded; try looking into My Computer and look at the File Types and see if an .exe or .bat is set to have a music program trying to open it. I'm sorry but I can't remember too much from Windows 98se. I have been using Windows 2k for a couple of years and have not even looked back!

Hope something works and good luck!