CD-ROM help!!!!

Hello everyone! Me and my dad had just purchased an Atlas 16x CD-ROm to replace our old single-speed which is just a tad out of date. After spending most of the night on it, my dad could never get it to work. So a few nights later he went back to work on it and 10 minutes later it worked. So, yesterday I got ICR2, I could'nt wait to play it but when we put it in, the CD-ROM drive would not work! My dad said it may be too fast for our 486 but I think if it worked before it'll work again. Can somebody help me with this problem? Thanks :o) Nick

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> Hello everyone! > Me and my dad had just purchased an Atlas 16x CD-ROm to replace our old > single-speed which is just a tad out of date. After spending most of > the night on it, my dad could never get it to work. So a few nights > later he went back to work on it and 10 minutes later it worked. So, > yesterday I got ICR2, I could'nt wait to play it but when we put it in, > the CD-ROM drive would not work! My dad said it may be too fast for our > 486 but I think if it worked before it'll work again. Can somebody help > me with this problem? Thanks :o) > Nick

Hi Nick Your dad could be right in a way, if your 486 has an enhanced IDE controller, not many had as standard, it should work fine, but if it only has a standard IDE controller it probobly will not work properly. If your machine has a bigger harddrive than 528 MB and runs this in so called LBA mode without an overlay driver, your machine has an enhanced IDE controller. This is not a big problem though, as aftermarket EIDE controllers are cheap and fairly easy to install. I`m assuming here that you have checked the jumper settings on both your harddrive(some disks have a setting for "slave present") and your CD-ROM. Goy