E458 ® High-Speed CD-ROM Drive ATAPI / Enhanced IDE Interface With Quick Installation Guides in 9 different languages ASUS CD-ROM Awards USER’S MANUAL
I. HARDWARE INSTALLATION I. H/W INST ALLATION Rear Panel/Setting Rear Panel Features CABLE SELECT DIGITAL ANALOG SLAVE MASTER IDE INTERFACE AUDIO AUDIO D G R GG L O O O O O O ➅ ➄ ➃ O O O 39 40 ➂ POWER 1 2 ➁ +5V G G +12V O O O O ➀ D: Digital; G: Ground; R: Right audio channel; L: Left audio channel NOTE: The pin settings or definitions of the connectors and jumpers are also engraved on the Rear Panel of your CD-ROM Drive. ➀ Power Supply connector connects to the computer’s power supply.
II. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION II. S/W INST ALLATION DOS/Windows/Others After you have installed the CD-ROM Drive into your computer, the drivers necessary to run the drive may now be installed. The CD-ROM Drive comes with an ASUS CD/DVD-ROM Driver for DOS/Win 3.X Installation disk. In addition to the hardware-dependent driver, a software-dependent driver is installed: MSCDEX.EXE (version 2.21 or later), which is the Microsoft CD-ROM Extension, a standard mechanism for interfacing CD-ROM drives with computers.
III. CD-ROM DRIVE OPERATION Front Panel Controls ➀ ➁ ➂ ➃ ➄ III. OPERA TION Front Panel ➀ Headphones Jack allows you to connect a pair of earphones or headphones to the drive for private listening. It also allows you to connect a pair of powered/self-amplified speakers. Just plug them into the Headphones Jack. NOTE: The Headphones Jack can only be used to listen to audio CD discs.
IV. TROUBLESHOOTING General Problems PROBLEM CAUSES SOLUTIONS PROBLEM CAUSE SOLUTION Unable to access CD-ROM Drive. 1. The information in your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT or both files might be incorrect. (DOS only.) 2. Some BIOS that include power management features use IRQ14 or IRQ 15, which should be reserved for IDE devices like your CD-ROM Drive. (DOS only.) 1. Check the LASTDRIVE= entry in your CONFIG.SYS file. You might have to set the drive letter to one higher than your actual last drive letter.
IV. TROUBLESHOOTING PROBLEM CAUSES SOLUTIONS Cannot achieve the maximum data transfer rate performance specified for the CDROM Drive. 1. If you are using a benchmarking utility, it may be old. 2. The disc is not full. 3. Given the signal quality issues with PIO Mode 4 transfer rates in some systems and such variables as error correction, caching, processor overhead, and rotational speed, higher transfer rates may not be achievable with the default transfer mode. Thus transfer rates may be lower. 4.
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