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cd burner not detected in bios
Name: jbltwin1 Date: May 12, 2006 at 03:33:32 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: 128k Product: pionex
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In an effort to correct some problem with an old machine, re-loaded windows from original disc. It detected a bad registry so it picked an older version and restored it. Now, CD burner is not detected in bios on boot up. So, it's not detected in windows in system file. I went through this when I put the burner in but hey, that was 5 yrs ago. Something to do with updating BIOS and chip. Any help out there? Thanks, Mike.
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: May 12, 2006 at 04:39:10 Pacific
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Have you looked for BIOS/chipset updates for your machine?
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Response Number 2
Name: jbltwin1 Date: May 12, 2006 at 07:18:52 Pacific
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Where do I look? What info do I need to provide?
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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: May 12, 2006 at 08:02:07 Pacific
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Google is a good place to start.
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Response Number 4
Name: jbltwin1 Date: May 12, 2006 at 08:54:08 Pacific
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THought of that after I posted. Thanks.
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Response Number 5
Name: Sabertooth Date: May 12, 2006 at 17:45:46 Pacific
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Time for you to physically reseat the optical drive's IDE cable and clear the NVRAM before rebooting.
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Response Number 6
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: May 12, 2006 at 19:55:18 Pacific
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Even an old bios should see the burner--it'll view it as another cdrom. The problem just about has to be cmos/bios setup, jumpers or the connection.
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Response Number 7
Name: GX1 Man Date: May 13, 2006 at 16:20:32 Pacific
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Or a bad drive.
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Response Number 8
Name: WIGGY Date: May 14, 2006 at 10:58:18 Pacific
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are the jumper settings correct, if this is the only drive you have or want to make it the master drive set the jumper between M and A. if the drive is on an IDE Cable with another drive like a hard disk set the jumper to slave between S and L. if that makes sense to you
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Response Number 9
Name: GX1 Man Date: May 14, 2006 at 13:05:09 Pacific
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A 5 year old CDRW, which did not have any cables or settings changed that now does not work? It's the drive!
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