PCMCIA CDROM driver installation
for Windows NT Ver 4.0
Windows NT Ver 4.0 does not recognize PLUG & PLAY hardware adapters and
does not allow hot insertion or removal of PCCards (PCMCIA cards).
You MUST therefore insert the CDROM PCCard before booting up under
Windows NT.
PCMCIA CDROM Driver Installation under Windows NT 4.0 :
1. Click Start, point to Settings, then click Control Panel.
2. Double click "SCSI Adapters."
3. Select the "Drivers" tab and click the "Add" button.
4. Click "Have Disk" and insert the CDROM Install diskette
into the computer's floppy drive.
5. Click "Browse" and select the drive letter for the floppy drive.
6. Double Click on the icon of the folder WinNT, Click Open and
Select OK. The path to the CDROM NT drivers should be 'A:\WinNT' or
'B:\WinNT'
7. When the list of adapters appears, highlight the adapter
MINICD and click "Next" to continue.
8. Click "OK" for Windows NT to install the necessary adapter
driver on your system.
9. Click "OK" to exit. Note that you need to reboot your system for
the new drivers to take effect.
TROUBLESHOOTING: IRQ CONFLICTS UNDER WINDOWS NT4.0
On a number of notebooks (Toshiba's Tecra, Sony's Vaio, Fujitsu's Biblio...),
Windows NT 4.0 fails to assign correct IRQ's to PC Card devices.
For instance, it often happens that IRQ 7 or 9 are affected to a PC Card
peripheral whereas it has already been assigned to some internal peripheral.
If after having installed the CDROM driver as explained above, no drive
icon is displayed for the CDROM drive and the driver is shown to be installed
and running in, 'Control Panel -> PC Card -> ARC ATAPI -> Properties', then it
is likely that some IRQ conflict has occurred preventing the drive from
functioning properly.
Use the ARC_IRQ installer utility to remedy this problem. If the problem persists, please contact your vendor.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.