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
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2000 is a bootlegg? burned disk? the old rom may not read burned disks.

"Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
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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
> --
> To mail me, please get rid of the BS first

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"Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
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> Sometime on, or about Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:05:12 -0800, JAD wrote:
>
>> 2000 is a bootlegg? burned disk? the old rom may not read burned disks.
>>
>> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
>> news:18dc3287i29q5.12fpjz7pf07ye.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> 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
>
> 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.


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.

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.

>
> Sam
> --
> To mail me, please get rid of the BS first

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Sometime on, or about Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:15:48 -0800, JAD wrote:

> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
> news:533qk0l58sag.4y1q2pw9lxqa$.dlg@40tude.net...
>> Sometime on, or about Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:05:12 -0800, JAD wrote:
>>
>>> 2000 is a bootlegg? burned disk? the old rom may not read burned disks.
>>>
>>> "Sam" <srs2_11BS@bsHotmailBS.com> wrote in message
>>> news:18dc3287i29q5.12fpjz7pf07ye.dlg@40tude.net...
>>>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.

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
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