Bummer! I have two drives, one that is detected within OS but doesn't read discs. The other isn't detected in a PNP OS but works fine in DOS. Feels like some kind of hardware fault from what I can tell. Hate to throw them away as one is sentimental, the other is rare (Kenwood True-X).

Is there anyone on here, or anyone out there who does component level repairs on CD ROM drives? I have a few that have issues working within Windows but mechanically seem fine. I have attempted some basic recap to the SMDs that seemed leaky but I think I'm out of my depth. If there is anyone out …

Pulled the PLCC32 bios chip, copied and flashed to a fresh one with a TL886 flasher Have you tried to download a BIOS from MSI site and write the BIOS image using a programmer? I mean the BIOS from here: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/K7_Master It's an archive on the site. The BIOS image …

I finally acquired an old MSI K7 Master motherboard from eBay that I knew was for parts. Obvious culprits being the multiple leaky and bulging caps. It would not POST and has a status LED of four red, meaning bad CPU. I replaced all the caps, even the ones that looked okay-ish, and success! It …

I'm also not using any upgrade packs, security patches, unofficial fixes, etc. Just a plain fresh install of Win98SE.

I've removed everything except the CDROM, HD and the TNT2. Parallel, serial and USB ports are all disabled as well as ACPI.

Tinkered around some more last night and installed XP. Works perfectly fine. So I'm doubting it's a hardware problem. I formatted and installed 98SE again, doing selective boot and it hangs at the msmouse.vxd. I am using a standard PS/2 mouse, the same one I've used the entire time building this …

You can try the drivers from the nVIDIA official page, if you did download them from other places... I have a disc burned with 71.84, downloaded from nVidia's site, that worked a few days ago. Not sure what happened and why it no longer works. I also tried 66.94.I'll give the Vogons one a shot, …

Hi all, having a real pill of a time with a recent build. I am using the following: DFI K6XV3+/66 mainboard AMD K6-2 450 2x64mb RAM (unbranded, Toshiba chips) Nvidia TNT 2 Pro 32MB AGP WD 27GB IDE hard drive Primary TDK 10/20/40 CD-RW Secondary CoolerMaster Socket 7 HSF I was able to install Win98SE …