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My Computer does not detect Cd-roms
Name: Justind85 Date: March 29, 2005 at 14:51:23 Pacific OS: Windows Me CPU/Ram: 256mb & 128mb ddr
Comment:
My Computer does not detect my CD-RW & DVD drives Please help!!!!
Heres my system info OS: Windows Millennium MotherBoard: Gigabyte Technology - P4 Titan (FSB 800 Processor: 3.0GHZ Intel Pentium 4 HyperThreading Technology Memory: 256MB & 128MB DDR Hard Drive: 4GB IDE Hard Drive 53GB IDE Hard Drive CD-RW: 8x/4x/32x Recordable/Rewriteable DVD-ROM: 16X/48X DVD-ROM Drive Video Card: 128MB ASUS V9520 Magic v44.03 (AGP 8x G-Force Fx 5200 With Tv-out) Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Diskette Drive Modem: 56K PCI Modem
Name: JackG Date: March 29, 2005 at 17:21:27 Pacific
Reply:
If the system board BIOS does not detect them on boot up, it is good odds one of them has gone bad (unless of course they are not plugged in and jumpered correctly.) Windows can not detect them as CD-Rom drives, if BIOS did not detect them. But then you said that they are not being detected, so we assume they were working and this is not a simple problem of you setting it up wrong, which should be asked in the hardware forum.
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Response Number 2
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: March 30, 2005 at 01:22:18 Pacific
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What does the BIOS report for IDE drives?
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