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CD-RW install gone bad
Name: Darlene Date: August 28, 2002 at 08:25:18 Pacific
Comment:
Last night, I installed a new CD-RW drive. When I turned on the computer, I got a Primary Master disk fail (or something like that). So I went into Setup. Since I know NOTHING about this CMOS etc. stuff, I naturally fooled around with some of the settings trying to set the CD-ROM to slave as the instructions stated. However, now when I boot up, I get "Disk Boot failure. Insert system boot disk and press enter". It also says "none" next to Primary Master in the CMOS listing. HELP... What did I do?
Name: n3985 Date: August 28, 2002 at 08:58:44 Pacific
Reply:
first, take out the CD-RW and boot, and see if everything is working correctly, then, if everything is fine, re-install the cd-rw drive, but make sure the jumpers are set correctly, i also recommend putting the CD-RW on a different IDE channel than the hard drive
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Response Number 2
Name: hehe Date: August 28, 2002 at 10:53:48 Pacific
Reply:
u must have accidentally disconnected the primary ide cable from your hard drive just re-check your cables and make sure everything is plugged it snug
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