Help! My cdrom keeps disappearing........

Hi everyone--ok, here's my problem. I have a emachine that was running
win98. The other day I took out the cdrom physically, then removed it
in the device manager. When i put a new (creative) cdrom drive, the os
did not detect and install it. so, after horsing around with the cd
and drivers a bit, i went in the bios, changed the startup option to
boot from cd, and booted from a win2k disk. win2k is now installed.
oh, by the way, i have the cdrom as a master on it's own ide channel.
well, the bios sees the cd, but whenever win2k boots up, the cdrom is
not there, and i have to go through the add hardware wizard, which
loads the driver for the creative, and everything works spanky until i
reboot the computer, at which point the cdrom has disappeared again. i
have tried resetting the bios to original configuration, running the
"detect ide devices" in the bios, and changing the cd jumper to cable
select. i need this computer to detect the cd on it's own. what am i
doing wrong (emachine aside), and how can i fix it? thanks a bunch,
ken

Ooops. Nevermind. Bad cd player. thanks anyhoo....


(Ken Holt) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> Hi everyone--ok, here's my problem. I have a emachine that was running
> win98. The other day I took out the cdrom physically, then removed it
> in the device manager. When i put a new (creative) cdrom drive, the os
> did not detect and install it. so, after horsing around with the cd
> and drivers a bit, i went in the bios, changed the startup option to
> boot from cd, and booted from a win2k disk. win2k is now installed.
> oh, by the way, i have the cdrom as a master on it's own ide channel.
> well, the bios sees the cd, but whenever win2k boots up, the cdrom is
> not there, and i have to go through the add hardware wizard, which
> loads the driver for the creative, and everything works spanky until i
> reboot the computer, at which point the cdrom has disappeared again. i
> have tried resetting the bios to original configuration, running the
> "detect ide devices" in the bios, and changing the cd jumper to cable
> select. i need this computer to detect the cd on it's own. what am i
> doing wrong (emachine aside), and how can i fix it? thanks a bunch,
> ken