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my computer does not see the cd-rom
Name: gabi Date: June 8, 2003 at 16:37:41 Pacific OS: win98 se CPU/Ram: 333/32
Comment:
hi, my computer does not recognise ny cd-rom on the first start.i must restart the computer to recognise him.tell me please what can i do that my computer can see the cd-rom on the first start. Thanks
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 8, 2003 at 17:18:24 Pacific
Reply:
I assume you mean it's not showing up in the posting screen (versus not showing up in 'my computer' when windows loads).
How is it connected--primary slave, secondary master, etc?
Setting a hard disk predelay in cmos allows the bios a little more time to detect a hard drive. I don't know if you can do it for a cdom or not. But even setting it for your hard drive may give enough time for it to see the cdrom.
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