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Received: from little-miami.iac.net (little-miami.iac.net [198.180.60.135]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA10937 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 20:22:50 -0700 Received: from ip041214.iac.net by little-miami.iac.net with SMTP id XAA14529; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 23:22:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 23:22:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199507220322.XAA14529@little-miami.iac.net> X-Sender: jdvanas@access.iac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: executor@nacm.com From: jdvanas@iac.net (Josh Vanas) Subject: Re: Re[2]: E/D Win95 Drive Problem Update X-Mailer: <PC Eudora Version 1.4> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk I apologize. I have never posted to list's before. I posted A reply to Sean Kanes CDROM problem, but only sent it to his address. I am no reposting the whole discussion for the benifit of any who might have been interested. SEAN KANE WRITES THE ORRIGIONAL PROBLEM: ---------------------------------------- >> Also, when I have a (non-mac) cdrom in my SCSI CDROM drive and start >> up E/D 1.99o in Windows 95 Gold. Executor (-nosplash) runs but all I >> get is a black screen and I never see the browser or anything appear. >> So I have to kill that process and return to Windows 95. If I remove >> the CDROM from my drive executor then boots fine, althought the local >> drives still freeze it when I click on them. >> >> Sean >> >> > > JOSH VANAS WRITES THE REPLY: ---------------------------- I am no expert, but, have you tried installing MSCDEX as your CD-ROM driver? Quote from the FAQ: Executor accesses CD-ROMs through the Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions (mscdex). You need to have mscdex installed on your machine for Executor to see your CD-ROM. Furthermore, Executor is fussy and will not deal with MS-DOS drives that contain Macintosh formatted media, unless the drive letter is "J" or less. If your CD-ROM drive letter is higher than J, you will need to renumber it to be less than or equal to J. Under Windows '95, there is a different way to access CD-ROMs -- a way that Executor doesn't use. However, Windows '95 can also use mscdex. To do so, you need to find and remove the: rem - By Windows 95 Setup portion from fthe mscdex line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. You will also need to edit your CONFIG.SYS file and make sure the CD-ROM driver is also not commented out. SEAN KANE WRITES IN REPLY TO JOSH VANAS' SOLUTION: -------------------------------------------------- > Yep, that's the problem. However, one would think It would just ignore > the cdrom if no MSCDEX was loaded not freak out. However this may be > to the fact that Windows95 assigns the cdrom a drive letter without > using mscdex and this is throwing executor for a loop......I will load > mscdex in my autoexec anyways to solve this...... > > One note: Loading mscdex, mouse drivers , etc into your autoexec will > slow down Win95 (although it shouldn't be noticable on a fast > machine). It forces Win95 into a "Compatibility Paging Mode" that > makes it work with unidentifable real-mode drivers, etc.... > > Sean > I hope that clears things up. Sorry for any confusion. Josh