Built New 'puter... CMOS/BIOS sees DVD drive but Win98 sta..

Your new mainboard uses a P35 chipset, which doesn't include an IDE
controller. The IDE controller is an add-on (listed as a Gigabyte part).

At a guess, the Win98 startup disk's drivers don't support the IDE
controller. I've seen something similar when I created a bootable
floppy-image CD: the floppy image itself booted OK, but the data partition
on it wasn't visible.

If your XP installation disk is bootable, I suggest booting directly from
that. (I was able to boot from a Vista 64 DVD on my Abit IP35 Pro based
system. That uses a JMicron controller.)

I imagine that there may be a way to install drivers for the IDE controller
on a DOS-like boot disk, but I have no idea how to do that.

Good luck.

Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn to reply.

"kxdude4" <Nada.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote in message
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> Hey all!
>
> I broke down a bought a 6600 Duo core with a Gigabyte MB (P35C-DS3R)
> and 1066 DDR2. Here's my problem....
>
> The Dog Gone thing won't see the DVD Drive to install WinXP!!! I've
> always used a Win98 start up disk for drivers (after installing
> smartdrv.exe) to install my OS.
>
> In this case, the BIOS Sees the DVD drive (tried 2 different drives)
> but the start up disk can't find the MSCD001 driver.
>
> WHAT THE HECK?!?!? That's worked forever! And it can't be the drive
> because I've installed 2 different units.
>
> What's going on here??!?!
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks!
 >> Stay informed about: Built New 'puter... CMOS/BIOS sees DVD drive but Win98 sta.. 

You know that if the CD drive is listed as the 1st boot device and you
insert the XP CD it will boot from the CD.......and the installation will
start.
There is no need to use 98.
Is the device listed on the BIOS screen when you boot???
Does the light on the Cd drive go on??
peter
"kxdude4" <Nada.DeleteThis@home.com> wrote in message
news:7ml2a3h8f8v1ovki5rqbr9e7fgltufmdbt@4ax.com...
> Hey all!
>
> I broke down a bought a 6600 Duo core with a Gigabyte MB (P35C-DS3R)
> and 1066 DDR2. Here's my problem....
>
> The Dog Gone thing won't see the DVD Drive to install WinXP!!! I've
> always used a Win98 start up disk for drivers (after installing
> smartdrv.exe) to install my OS.
>
> In this case, the BIOS Sees the DVD drive (tried 2 different drives)
> but the start up disk can't find the MSCD001 driver.
>
> WHAT THE HECK?!?!? That's worked forever! And it can't be the drive
> because I've installed 2 different units.
>
> What's going on here??!?!
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks!
 >> Stay informed about: Built New 'puter... CMOS/BIOS sees DVD drive but Win98 sta.. 

Try another cd rom drive
"kxdude4" <Nada RemoveThis @home.com> wrote in message
news:7ml2a3h8f8v1ovki5rqbr9e7fgltufmdbt@4ax.com...
> Hey all!
>
> I broke down a bought a 6600 Duo core with a Gigabyte MB (P35C-DS3R)
> and 1066 DDR2. Here's my problem....
>
> The Dog Gone thing won't see the DVD Drive to install WinXP!!! I've
> always used a Win98 start up disk for drivers (after installing
> smartdrv.exe) to install my OS.
>
> In this case, the BIOS Sees the DVD drive (tried 2 different drives)
> but the start up disk can't find the MSCD001 driver.
>
> WHAT THE HECK?!?!? That's worked forever! And it can't be the drive
> because I've installed 2 different units.
>
> What's going on here??!?!
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks!
 >> Stay informed about: Built New 'puter... CMOS/BIOS sees DVD drive but Win98 sta..