Greetings, I am building a new computer and am having a problem. I am using an MSI K7 Master mobo with Enermax pwr, Athlon 1.4 with 256 DDR. The HDD is a Maxtor 40 GB, 7200. The CDRom is a Liteon 52X, the floppy a Sony. The graphics an ATI Expert 2000, and the sound card is a Sound Blaster Live. I have assembled/installed the components. I have run the MaxBlaster cd incl.with the Maxtor HDD and formated and partitioned the HDD. I am attempting to install MS Millenium (upgrade). I have 95 full version CD. I cannot get the CD-ROM to run to load windows. I have tried both a 95 and 98 startup floppy. I keep getting a "CD-ROM failed," line in DOS. I have changed to "Boot to CDROM" in cmos. I have tried two different CDROMs (Liteon and NEC). I have tried plugging the CD-ROM in the slave slot in the IDE #1 with the HDD in master. I have tried plugging the CDROM into both the master and slave slots in the IDE#2. There are two lines in dos: "The following file is missing or corrupted: C:\DOS\HIMEN.SYS" "There is an error in your CONFIG.SYS on line 1."I have tried using both a Win 95 and Win 98 startup disk, and when I do a "C:dir" the HIMEN.SYS shows. There is also a dos line listing the CDROM driver(from startup disk) "ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM device driver version 4.14." The MSI mobo came with a cd with drivers, but of course I can't load them. :P I have run out of things to try, so any help would be very much appreciated! Please feel free to drop me an email.
thanks, bob