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Please help. I'm running win 98 on a 350mhz PC. I recently replaced my old internal CD-R with a new internal CD-RW (Philips CDRW 4800) - installation was a straight swap.

The new drive reads and writes just fine, however I now have a problem each time I boot up my machine. The following message appears during the boot sequence:

"
Verifying DMI Pool Data...

CD-ROM Device Driver Version 5.17x for ATAPI
Copyright (c) Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics Industries, Ltd.
1990-1996 All Rights Reserved.
Device Name = OEMCD001
Supporting the following units:

Interface board or CD-ROM drive is not ready.
Insure that drive power is on and drive cables correctly attached.
<A>bort or <R>etry
"

When I hit <A> the boot sequence continues and Windows starts. I don't know what the problem is - it seems as though my PC is still looking for the old CD-R drive (which was a Matsushita) when it starts up.

Any advice is much appreciated!

Yes it does look as though you machine is trying to load your old CD drive.
I would suggest that you try uninstalling your old CD-Rom drivers through your system properties.
Right click on your “My Computer” icon, select properties from the popup list, next click on “Device Manager” tab there should be a yellow explanation point in your CDROM listing referring to your old CD drive right click on the old drive reference and select remove/uninstall from the popup list, click OK from the popup window asking you are you sure you want to remove this device. Exit all open windows and reboot your computer the problem should be gone.