User manual PLEXTOR 8PL-3

[. . . ] ---- CHAPTER 10 ---- Using CD-ROM Discs and Caddies YOUR TASK: YOUR OBJECTIVE: YOUR METHOD: Learn how to use a caddy and how to handle and care for your discs. Insert and eject caddies properly so your drive operates without interruption. Practice loading discs into caddies and caddies into drives. Plextor's CD-ROM drives use an industry-standard disc caddy to protect the disc from scratches and contamination. A standard caddy is made of plastic and has a metal shutter on its bottom which slides open and shut. [. . . ] Soundboard Volume Low If, when playing an audio CD, you do not hear sound even though everything appears to be functioning normally (busy light on drive flickers, the time counter on your audio CD utility is advancing), you may have the mixer settings for your soundboard set too low. Each soundboard has different settings for each input source, including one for CD Audio. Run your soundboard's mixer program, and verify that the volume is turned up. Bad Soundboard Audio Cable If you have verified that you have made the proper cable connections between your 8PleX drive and soundboard, and you have the correct device drivers installed, but you still do not hear sound when playing an audio CD, the problem may rest with your audio cable. It may be defective and need to be replaced. You can check to see if this is the case by doing the following: unplug the audio cable from the rear of your 8PleX drive. Plug a set of headphones or speakers that you know are good into the jack on the front of the drive. If the memory manager tries to load the CD-ROM driver into high memory (e. g. , DEVICEHIGH or LOADHIGH), disable the function so that the driver is loaded into conventional memory. Hardware Conflict Between the Interface Board and Your Computer The SCSI interface board may be in conflict with another peripheral in your computer. Normally, this conflict can be settled by selecting a different address for the SCSI interface board. In some cases, you may wish to select a different address for the conflicting peripheral. If the driver still does not recognize the interface board, follow these steps: 1) Remove all non-essential peripherals from your computer (e. g. , network boards, fax boards, etc. ) and their device drivers from the CONFIG. SYS and AUTOEXEC. BAT files. 2) Reboot the computer and ensure that the CD-ROM device driver recognizes the SCSI interface board. 3) Turn off the computer, and reinstall each peripheral and its device drivers one at a time. 4) Repeat steps 2 and 3 until the problem reoccurs. This means that the problem is with the last peripheral you installed. Improper MSCDEX Installation The Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions (filename: MSCDEX. EXE) or equivalent files from Corel (CORELCDX. EXE) are required to run your CD-ROM drive under MS-DOS or DR DOS. If the SCSI driver was successfully loaded, check for proper installation of MSCDEX. EXE by rebooting the computer and watching the AUTOEXEC. BAT file as it executes for an error message. SCSI Interface Board Not Properly Seated If the SCSI interface board is not fully seated into the computer's expansion slot, the device driver software will not recognize it. Inspect the interface board where it seats into the connector on your computer's motherboard. There should not be more than a small gap between the interface board and the connector. PX-83CS/PX85-CS OPERATION MANUAL 51 CHAPTER 12 ---- Troubleshooting Symptom · Incorrect DOS Version Possible Causes and Solutions Conflict Between MS-DOS 5. 0 and Microsoft's CD-ROM Extensions Version 2. 2 (or Lower) MS-DOS 5. 0 users should use Microsoft's CD-ROM Extensions (file name MSCDEX. EXE) Version 2. 21 or 2. 22. If you do not have either of these versions, and plan to use DOS 5. 0 with MSCDEX. EXE Ver 2. 2 (or lower), you can resolve this conflict by doing the following: 1) Type the following line into your CONFIG. SYS file: DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER. EXE 2) Switch to the DOS prompt. [. . . ] Disc in Caddy Upside Down Remove disc from caddy and reinsert label side up. Symptom · CDR103 -- Not High Sierra Format Additional Symptom Occurs With Certain Discs Only Possible Cause and Solution Incorrect Disc The disc might be intended for another type of computer, such as a Macintosh or Sun, or it is not mastered in the High Sierra or ISO 9660 formats. Symptom · CDR103 -- Not High Sierra Format Additional Symptom Occurs Regardless of the Discs Used Possible Causes and Solutions Incorrect Jumper Setting You might have the block jumper set to ON. Hardware Conflict If the SCSI interface board uses DMA channels, try changing the selected DMA channel. See the instruction manual for your SCSI interface board. Memory Manager Conflict If the SCSI interface board uses memory-mapped addressing or has a BIOS, exclude the addresses from the memory manager. [. . . ]