home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.windows-xp      One of my personal favourites!      146,966 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 145,346 of 146,966   
   knuttle to Willem van den Blink   
   Re: atapi.sys   
   20 Sep 10 19:53:21   
   
   From: keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net   
      
   On 9/20/2010 4:40 PM, Willem van den Blink wrote:   
   > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:14:25 -0500, Grinder   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> It's possible that hardware is the source of your problem.  I know that   
   >> it specifically mentions ATAPI.SYS, but it could be failing to load   
   >> because it cannot find a device.  Pop in a replacement drive if you have   
   >> one lying around.   
   >   
   >   
   > My hard connected CDROM does not work, but also a USB connected   
   > CDROMDRIVE doesn't work (it expects the same drivers to be present or   
   > available). So I think it is not a hardware, but a software problem.   
   >   
   > Willem.   
   >   
   > (remove s from wblinks for email reply)   
   Have you tried to delete the drivers for the CD and let windows find it   
   after a reboot and reinstall the drivers?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca