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Bios cdrom detection

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I have 3 computers here that won't detect the CDROM in the BIOS, two of them are award BIOS, and the other one's a Compaq, when i boot with a windows boot disk, the DOS CDROM drivers find the CDROM and I'm able to install windows, but when windows reboots it nolonger finds the CDROM and fails the install the rest of windows. i know the computers support CDROMs because in the bios it supports CDROM booting, I have tryed installing new CDROMs in the systems with no luck. All the jumpers are set right, iv tryed on the fly (or as a slave), all with no luck what could I be doing wrong? Thanks, Albert

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