[Liberator]

What do you folk use to mount ISOs?

[Taristin]

Err. I use winrar to open then... Other than that, I burn them.

[an0n]

A pirated copy of WinISO.

[Goober5000]

Daemon Tools works for me.

[Liberator]

Okay, nobody mention Daemon Tools.  The new versions destabilize my system.(as in perpetual restarts halfway throught the boot sequence)

[Cyker]

Daemon Tools

[Liberator]

You're so funny Cyker...

[ChronoReverse]

Then don't use the latest version.  It's not that hard to figure out.


Failing that, you can try Alcohol 120%

[Andreas]

WinISO for mounting, Alcohol 120% for burning

[Liberator]

I tried to use Acohol 52%, because I didn't want to do anything but mount the image.  A52% and Daemon Tools both made my system constantly restart halfway through the boot process.  S'okay now though, my CD Drive started working again.  I gotta remember to clean it more often.

[Moonsword]

Why?  Was there something growing in it?

[Liberator]

I don't know, I was trying to install Renegade and it would lock up and I'd have to restart.  I cleaned and then it worked.

[Kosh]

Originally posted by Liberator
I tried to use Acohol 52%, because I didn't want to do anything but mount the image.  A52% and Daemon Tools both made my system constantly restart halfway through the boot process.  

? Is it doing this when it is loading windows, or before that?

[SadisticSid]

An old version of CloneCD might do the trick Lib. There's a Virtual Drive option you can enable in there.

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Kosh
? Is it doing this when it is loading windows, or before that?

It POSTs, and then starts to load windows, and if I running either of the aforementioned software, about halfway through loading windows...kaboom...the screen blacks out and it flashes back to POSTing.  Over and Over, until I boot into safe mode and remove the offending software.  I've also been getting random restarts and freezeups.  It seems that my computer has decided it doesn't like running mismatched memory.  But it is more likely the OS, it's a ripped copy of 98se that I got out of my old 500mhz compaq.  I'm in the process of "acquiring" a different version of windows and if I can keep the system up and running I may try Knoppix.

[Taristin]

*cough*XP Corporate with SP1 *cough*

Something to consider.

[Liberator]

*cough cough*that's the one that doesn't need activating right?*cough cough*

My harddrive is only 10 GB though and I can't afford to get a new one.

[Scuddie]

You're running 98se and logical SCSI devices arent working?  You're kidding me!!

With all sarcasm aside, your only real option is to install Win2k with SP3 or later (or XP if you have plenty of RAM).  Otherwise you can always try installing ForceASPI and hope it works.  98 never liked SCSI, especially if it didnt have a host controller.

All that said, Daemon Tools is by far the best logical SCSI CD/DVD rom drive available.

Good luck

[Liberator]

I think I narrowed down what is causing my system instability.

The bedamned driver that MSI has on their website integrates with DirectX to output sound, I have no line in/out control(windows doesn't even see it and I had it before).  Bear in mind, with the driver on the CD that came with the mobo I have Line In/Out and SPIDIF options.

Basically, if I use a program that uses DX for sound output, it's only a matter of time(seconds to minutes) before the system crashes and my driver CD is 90 miles away.  Oh well, I was going home for New Year's anyway.

[Kosh]

So it isn't Daemon Tools after all? Interesting.