Liteon CD-RW Driver

[fernandomaravilla]

ok, i need your help and if you help i will love you forever! i bought a Liteon CD-RW Drive yesterday but i cannot get it to burn cd's. i cannot even get my computer to recognize that it's a cd burner. can i get a different driver to work for it? is there a driver that doesn't need MS-Dos mode? i have been hoplessly trying to get it to work since yesterday after i bought it. it came with Nero software and that is downloaded. It said that i had to install the driver onto a 3 1/2 disk and i did. so i click on it and it says to click either Easy or Custom installation. this happens in MS-OS and i have no clue how i'll supposed to install this. i have the 40-pin IDE and POwer Hooked Up, Maybe it's the other small wire that came with it? But i have tried plugging it in everywhere and it doesn't work. i need to figure out how to install it. I don't know how to use the MS-DOS mode so i can't say that i've tried everything. i have been trying today for about 6 hours but cannot get it working. I am running a Windows 98SE. The model # is : SOHR-5239S06C. Any help would be wonderful.

[atomizer]

how is the jumper set (master/slave/CS)?

what does device manager report?

i have some other ideas. let's try that first though.

[fernandomaravilla]

the jumper is set to slave.

as for the device manager, that says that i have a PCI Multimedia Audio Device.

i can install the "Atapi CD-ROM SPEED" or the "CD-912E/ATK" but they don't show up on "MY COmputer".

thanks for responding by the way.

[atomizer]

SOHR-5239S06C <can you double check that number? it doesn't seem right.

[mau-yong]

mine is also Liteon cd-rw and was detected on my comp as as ordinary cdrom, after i've installed Nero, it was correctly identified and was able to burn!

i hope this helps!

[Eck]

There was no need for you to dig into the cd's files and install that dos cd driver. That is just there for folks who want to use the cdrom drive in Ms-Dos Mode. The dos driver installer copied the Ms-Dos cdrom driver to C:\HXCD-ROM. It also added a line to your Autoexec.bat calling MSCDEX, and a line to your config.sys calling the cdrom.sys driver.

Possibly this has confused Windows, as ideally these 16 bit drivers should not be run. Windows has its own 32 bit cdrom drivers.

First make sure you have the jumper set properly on the drive. The retail version of the drive has a chart in the manual showing you the various jumper settings available. It may by default be set to either cable select or master. If your hard drive is set to cable select then set the cdrom to cable select as well. If your hard drive is set to master, then install the cdrom drive to your secondary IDE and set the jumper on it to master. If you have another cd or dvd drive there, set that one to the slave position.

The thin cable is to allow analog cd audio to be processed. On Windows XP this is no longer needed, but on 9x systems where older cd playing software will not use digital playback for cd's you need to connect this cable from the cdrom drive to your soundcard.

Back in Windows, go to Start, Run, and type in sysedit and open it.

On the autoexec.bat tab, delete the line referring to MSCDEX. In the drop down, click File, Save.

On the config.sys tab, delete the line referring to cdrom.sys. In the drop down, click File, Save.

Close Sysedit.

Right click My Computer. Select Properties. In Device Manager click the little plus to the left of your cdrom drive and you'll see your Liteon cdrw drive there. Right click the Liteon cdrw drive and choose remove.

OK Device Manager and restart the computer.

Windows will detect the drive on startup and install the proper drivers for it automatically.

Nero should now work.

If you ever need to use the dos driver, do not run the install for it. Just copy the driver to an HXCD-ROM folder. In fact, if you haven't deleted the HXCD-ROM folder from your C: drive that you have there, you can refer to the readme in it. You simply place the calls to the cdrom.sys driver in either the properties page of the Ms-Dos program you will be rebooting to, or the exittodos.pif properties page in the C:\WINDOWS folder. You type in the same lines that we deleted from the Windows system files. The call to MSCDEX goes in the private Ms-Dos Mode autoexec, and the call to cdrom.sys goes in the private Ms-Dos Mode config.sys. But you don't put them in the ones Windows uses to run your computer.

Some do. However they then call MSCDEX from the dosstart.bat file in the Windows folder, and put loadhigh in front of the call to cdrom.sys in config.sys. But this is still not optimal cdrom usage, as the 32bit cdrom driver in Windows 98 is preferred. Just use real mode stuff if you're gonna be in dos. That's what Ms-Dos right click properties pages are for.

That install file sets things up like a Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.1 system. You don't want to load MSCDEX while Windows 98 is running.

[fernandomaravilla]

OMG Eck!!! You totally hit the spot!!! I deleted the files you told me and now it's working. I tried for 2 whole days and nothing and then you came into my life nad made it worth living (not really but....well, you get it.) It works perfectly and i was mad because i was going to return it but had lost the receipt. i installed Nero and it works great now. Thanks once again to one and all who helped me. You Guys are great!!!

[miko]

nice one Eck

[Eck]

My Mom's been sick so I hadn't been around.

I just noticed that I was right in my assumptions. Cool. I'm glad it worked.

It only clicked with me since that's one of the drive's I own and though I do use that dos cd driver for Ms-Dos Mode, I had checked out the batch file for the installer and had no interest in it messing with my system files. What I thought might happen if I ran that installer was what happened to fernandomaravilla.

It's actually the best dos cdrom driver I've come across. It uses only a tiny bit of memory to run, and on really old boxes that have a SiS5598 board will run in UDMA Mode 2 in dos!

Of course, I'm learning to let go of the past these days. This sort of thing is from those ancient days of like 5-6 years ago.

Now that I'm giving in to using XP mostly, Microsoft is about to make it, too, obsolete in a couple of years.

Money, Money, Money. All they really had to do was keep updating 98. But I know I've spent a ton more money on computing because keep releasing updates as new operating systems. XP is NT with consessions for 9x software compatibility. I like it, but it's sort of Windows 95 Seventh Edition, ya know?