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Having trouble installing an optical drive in DOS.

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First post, by Flare

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I'm trying to get an AOPEN 1640 Pro DVD drive working in DOS 6.22 on an ASUS P5S-B motherboard.

It worked fine with DOS on my previous motherboard, but this board must have an unsupported chipset or something and I can't find the driver for that. (The South Bridge is a SiS5595)

I've tried AOPEN's driver and the OAK driver, if they don't hang on startup they give error messages and trying to customize the configuration is confusing me.

Is there hope for this combo or should I invest in an add-on IDE card? (Can someone recommend a reliable ATA133 card with a DOS driver?)

Reply 1 of 3, by debs3759

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Have you got the most up to date BIOS? Does the board recognise CDROM drives?

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Reply 2 of 3, by Flare

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debs3759 wrote:

Have you got the most up to date BIOS? Does the board recognise CDROM drives?

Yes, I installed BIOS 1004 and the system shows the drive during POST and successfully boots from CDs/DVDs.

Reply 3 of 3, by Flare

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Update: I've tried installing UDMA2 and ATAPI drivers in DOS, (Not at the same time) but they're not helping either.

Is an add-in IDE controller the only way to fix this?

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