re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do
Monday, December 10, 2007 at 8:05 pm
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Posted by DEX
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On Monday, December 10, 2007 at 4:37 pm, Brian McDaniel wrote:
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>After reading your post I tried what you said. Every time the CMOS recognizes the
>drive just fine. I can't open any CD-ROM's in Windows. Just for kicks I tried connecting
>everything the way it was when I got the computer, namely, CD-ROM drive as master
>and hard drive as slave on the same cable. Same results. I also tried some other
>things. I tried booting from a Win98 Emergency Boot Disk. MSCDEX found my CD drive
>and assigned it drive letter D:. I was able to change over to D: but when I tried
>a DIR, I got an error. I think it was "Fail on INT 14" unless it was INT 21; it
was
>definitely one of those. Also I tried disconnecting the hard drive completely to
>see if the computer could boot from the CD drive. I took out the boot floppy and
>put a bootable CD (the WinXP install CD in this case) in the CD drive. The computer
>couldn't boot from it at all. It looks like my problem is deeper than Windows, but
>higher than BIOS/CMOS or at the same level as BIOS.
>
>I also noticed that my CMOS menu seems to take a long time to come up, like a minute
>or more.
>
>Any more ideas?
>
>
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