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still no luck
Saturday, October 19, 2002 at 5:33 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John N. Shaw
(6 messages posted)
I tried those things, actually I didn't try removing the device drivers until I read
your message but no luck. Yes, the CD boots (I have a DOS menu at boot on this cd
I'm working on and I had already been testing it before I tried autorun.) Also,
I still use the old term autorun but autoplay is I guess the accepted terminology
now, (like directory and folder, I found myself starting to say folder this year
instead of directory on occation, and I despise that, but most people wouldn't know
what I was talking about if I didn't.) I won't reset my BIOS defaults :| firm on
that, I've got so many options in my BIOS to tweak if I do I would pull my brains
out, but I can tell you that I remember autorun has worked on my system at ONE point
in time or another, (whereas those BIOS settings haven't been changed since I built
this box.) Thanks for your suggestions.
On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:50 pm, skoob wrote:
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>I'm going to bet you also went to safe mode, uninstalled the cdrom drivers in device
>manager, rebooted, and let Windows redetect/reinstalled the drivers.
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>I'm also going to bet you checked the properties of the secondary IDE channel (IDE/ATAPI
>devices) in device manager.
>
>Oh, and I'm sure you also tried cold-booting to a cd (OS, Restore?) from a shut
down
>state...right?
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>OK, if none of that worked, just for kicks, try resetting your BIOS defaults (kinda
>hokey, I know). Since you've already proved it ain't the cd's, the other options
>are the CD drive itself, or Windows. I'm leaning toward Windows. Just a guess,
>though.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
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