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Hello,

Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running Windows
'95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke. I removed
the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it recognized by the
OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is enabled, and
recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master, as a slave, and
as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have been an
appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got "The
selected location does not have information about the device".

My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
Aptiva site.

The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

smackedass

I'm leaning towards it is too new. However, it could also be that
particular brand and its drivers. I just looked through my stock pile
of parts and realized I threw everything that was old away a few
months ago. Take a look at eBay. You might also want to try a
DVD-ROM drive. While you might not be able to play video on it
without a decoder card, it might work well for data.

In any case, I did a quick lookup and found this driver:
http://members.driverguide.com/drive...p?driverid=182

It might be the same one you found for DOS, WIN 95 and 98.


On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:10:35 GMT, "smackedass"
<> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running Windows
>'95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke. I removed
>the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it recognized by the
>OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is enabled, and
>recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master, as a slave, and
>as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have been an
>appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got "The
>selected location does not have information about the device".
>
>My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
>Aptiva site.
>
>The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>smackedass

THE DRIVER WORKED!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

First I had to pay for the driverguide.com Pro Membership, that I'd been
meaning to do that, anyway, that was $49.95, and I'm making $65 off of the
job, so that works. And, now I can get whatever I want for a year from
driverguide.com

Thank you, again!

smackedass

He said is was a Aptiva running Windows 95. I think you meant a PS2 and not
a OSR2.

"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
news:46c398d3$0$11038$...
> There were some older drives that had 40 pin interface cables which were
> NOT IDE, but rather a proprietary interface. If this is OSR2 with USB
> support, you could try an external USB drive. You could also try a PCI
> IDE port. The problem might be the port and not the drive.
>
> smackedass wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running
>> Windows '95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive broke.
>> I removed the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get it
>> recognized by the OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where it is
>> enabled, and recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a master,
>> as a slave, and as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what might have
>> been an appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it at that, got
>> "The selected location does not have information about the device".
>>
>> My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on the
>> Aptiva site.
>>
>> The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> smackedass

If that was pointed towards me, you are welcome.

By the way, I have an old username and password that gets me in all
the time with no problems. I should have downloaded it an emailed it
to you. Would have saved you some cash.

Time for bed. I think I will count sheep in binary.
Or maybe I will have another Jack and Coke.
Hmmm... The latter wins.


On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 23:06:27 GMT, "smackedass"
<> wrote:

>
>
>THE DRIVER WORKED!
>
>Thank you, thank you, thank you!
>
>First I had to pay for the driverguide.com Pro Membership, that I'd been
>meaning to do that, anyway, that was $49.95, and I'm making $65 off of the
>job, so that works. And, now I can get whatever I want for a year from
>driverguide.com
>
>Thank you, again!
>
>smackedass

Ah yes, my mistake. Windows 95 version C. The one floppy disk update that
provided poor USB support at best.

"Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
news:46c3cdfa$0$3791$...
> No, I meant Windows 95 OSR2 .... the only version of Windows 95 that had
> USB port support.
>
>
> Andy Barkl wrote:
>> He said is was a Aptiva running Windows 95. I think you meant a PS2 and
>> not a OSR2.
>>
>> "Barry Watzman" <> wrote in message
>> news:46c398d3$0$11038$...
>>> There were some older drives that had 40 pin interface cables which were
>>> NOT IDE, but rather a proprietary interface. If this is OSR2 with USB
>>> support, you could try an external USB drive. You could also try a PCI
>>> IDE port. The problem might be the port and not the drive.
>>>
>>> smackedass wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Horror of horrors, a customer of mine has an old IBM Aptiva running
>>>> Windows '95. Actually, it's running pretty well but the CD drive
>>>> broke. I removed the broken drive, slipped in another, and I can't get
>>>> it recognized by the OS for love or money. I checked the BIOS, where
>>>> it is enabled, and recognized. I've tried it on IDE 1 and IDE2, as a
>>>> master, as a slave, and as a cable select, nothing. I downloaded what
>>>> might have been an appropriate driver from driverguide.com, pointed it
>>>> at that, got "The selected location does not have information about the
>>>> device".
>>>>
>>>> My customer doesn't have the disk (s). The model does not appear on
>>>> the Aptiva site.
>>>>
>>>> The drive I'm trying is an LG CRD 8400B. Could it just be too new?
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> smackedass
>>

Some ideas -

Result of a google for the LG CRD-8400B.
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...r/En/index.htm

and the troubleshooting page from the above
http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...En/trouble.htm

You mentioned that it was an old Aptiva. Is it possible that the IDE
cables are 40-conductor and not the required 80-conductor for newer IDE
hardware?

An article about the 80-conductor IDE cable:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf_Cable80.htm

Another short article on the same subject and giving three reasons to
use the 80-conductor cable:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Hardware/faqs/kb/15,28.html

Perhaps some of this may help.

Cheers,

Dan

Dan,

Problem solved, correct driver did it.

Thanks for responding.

sa