I HAVE JUST INSTALLED A NEW 40 GIG HARD DRIVE TO MY SECOND COMPIE, BUT AFTER INSTALLING WINDOWS 98/SE AND HAVING A CD-ROM FOR THE FIRST FEW BOOTS, MY CD-ROM HAS DISAPPEARED OFF THE WINDOWS CONTROL PANEL, BUT IT IS INSTALLED IN THE BIOS SETUP.
I HAVE NO IDEAS WHAT THE CD-ROM IS BUT I WANTED TO UPGRADE TO XP AS THAT HAS SO MANY MORE DRIVERS, (AND MY SOUND CARD AND VGA HAVE NO DRIVERS), BUT HOW CAN I DO THAT WITH NO CD-ROM INSTALLED IN WINDOWS?........ I'M NOW CRACKING UP..............

Get your hardware details - get on another computer and download the drivers. Should be it - post back if you need any help.

that's right clever, but how do i find out what hardware i have if it don't tell me in device manager(as windows is using standard drivers) and it is doing the same in system info.
i downloaded everest to find out what hardware was in it but it was to big for a floppy and the second compie ain't got no cd-rom.
i don't know anything about the second compie's insides,but i have tried looking for a name on the board but all it has is canada ices and that ain't showing up in driveguide as a board..................ahhhhhhh!
the dam cd-rom ain't got a name on neither................ahhhhhhhh!

may be u have take changes in msconfig in run, if yes so goto run start msconfig.exe again, and in the startup tab enable all click ok and restart computer.

thanks terryx.
have now changed cd-rom, and this ones working, now looking for drivers for graphics card, which is sis 300 intergrated, but it keeps tellin me that it is a standard graphics adapter,and won't except the driver for the sis 300 maybe i got the wrong one, thats me all over..........now going to look for sis 300 intergrated........need this cause i have only two and 16 colours......dam compie............should have took a course, then i may know what i'm going on about.............if you answer this now i will be back in a flash...........untill then ...ahhhhhhhh