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cd-rom drive error
Name: yakman (by ace07) Date: December 4, 2006 at 08:15:38 Pacific OS: win 2000 CPU/Ram: N/A Product: dell
Comment:
whenever i try to start a pc game this msg on the screen keeps coming up' CANNOT LOCATE THE DVD-ROM' please insert the correct dvd-rom,select ok and restart. what does this mean ?
Name: yakman (by ace07) Date: December 4, 2006 at 11:15:48 Pacific
Reply:
how do you check bios ?
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Response Number 7
Name: Kurt S Date: December 4, 2006 at 13:44:58 Pacific
Reply:
On a Dell, press F2 during bootup
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Response Number 8
Name: haroldw Date: December 4, 2006 at 14:12:51 Pacific
Reply:
Ace07:
Maybe you just made a mistake, but throughout this you have beed calling your optical drive a cdrom drive. If in fact it is only a cdrom drive (not a combo or dvdrom drive) and you are trying to read a DVD, than it will not work. It was not designed to read DVDs.
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Response Number 9
Name: Kurt S Date: December 4, 2006 at 15:30:37 Pacific
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I thought that as well but since he stated he gets the message 'please insert the correct dvd-rom,select ok and restart" I assumed he had it installed at some point and was clicking on an icon thus indicating it probably worked at some point.
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Response Number 10
Name: yakman (by ace07) Date: December 4, 2006 at 16:08:12 Pacific
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referring to haroldw it was not a dvd i was talking but u know how on the my computer section u got a:floppy disk. c:local disk etc well where i put my cds and what determines what is in my cd drive is not there for e.g b:cd
referring to kurt s the game i installed was working before but after the reboot thst is when the drive vanished off 'my computer' and the error msg came up
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Response Number 11
Name: yakman (by ace07) Date: December 4, 2006 at 17:30:57 Pacific
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