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Oak Technologies Driver Hangs

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First post, by pixelmischief

Posted on 2019-09-27, 23:05

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I have an Asus TUV4X mobo and a Sony DVD-ROM drive. I can boot from both floppy and CDROM. But when either loads the Oak driver to enable CDROM support, the driver "hangs". I put that in quote because the machine doesn't hang. I can still NUM-lock on and off, and CTRL+ALT+DELETE works. The driver just...never finishes loading.

I've tried everything I can think of. I have changed the RAM, toggled all the BIOS options, swapped the cables, PIO/DMA modes on and off, different optical drive, optical drive only, etc.

Anyone have any ideas what else I can try? Please resist the urge to recommend other ways I can transfer data. I know them all and I have them all working. This is just about getting the optical drive to be accessible without Windows installed and started.

Reply 1 of 6, by pixelmischief

Posted on 2019-09-27, 23:54

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Looks like the problem...disappeared? I need to find out why this just started working.

Reply 2 of 6, by pixelmischief

Posted on 2019-09-28, 00:15

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The BIOS feature "CPU-DRAM Back-Back Transaction" was the culprit. Also noticed a second symptom. While it doesn't break floppy drive operation, it does leave the access light running constantly until Windows starts.

Reply 3 of 6, by collector

Posted on 2019-09-28, 14:15

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Wrong forum. As per the description of this forum: "Getting old DOS games working on modern hardware. (DOSBox topics belong in DOSBox areas below, not here)." Ask old hardware and driver/configuration questions in Marvin. Marvin, the Paranoid Android

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