Summary: I have a Dell Latitude CPi, its CD-Rom can be hoohed to the parallel port with the cable that came with it, and can boot from that CD. Problem: CD-Rom...
Summary: Hi, two things you should have an eye on. 1) As your CD-Rom is only x4 it may not be important but you should put the two CD devices to different ide ...
Summary: I was just given an ASUS CD-ROM (fairly new) that will not open under any circumstances when plugged in and turned on. The only way I can open it is t...
Summary: Hi Jonathan, Are the colored connectors on the sound card on the facing the back of the computer when the card is in the pci slot (installed in the co...
Summary: I'm trying to install an OS on an old Dell M166a, but I'm encountering some problems. When I first tried booting up from the CD, it wouldn't work, eve...
Summary: i'm using the same type hard drive as before.western digital 10 gb,with a cr-272 cd-rom in a dell p75,90 mt.there are 2 IDE cables.i've tried hooking ...
Summary: After replacing my CPU, RAM, MOBO, PSU in my pc all i kept was my old IDE HDD and IDE CDROM. i was unable to install windows back onto the C: partitio...
Summary: whenever I start up the computer, i get the message: ATAPI IDE CD-ROM Device Driver Release Date 04/19/1999 Time: 09:00 Example: device=CD-ROM-DRV.SYS...
Summary: As for the MBoard chipset drivers no i have not installed them, I bought this computer used, it's a QDI Legend with a Via Appalo chipset... but as for...
Summary: Hello all: I've been trying to set up a cd-rom on an old 386, 66 mhz. When I use a boot disk, it works fine, drivers installed and functioning. The pr...
Summary: Hi, could use your advice once more. Would it be possible to just add an IDE CD-ROM as Slave and connect to the old Packard bell Sound Card Connector ...
Summary: I formatted my drive and have a boot disk when i ask it to load with cd rom it says it is not detected however i know it is working because when i had...
Summary: A few weeks ago I bought a new hard drive and since then bought a new motherboard. I use to have this problem on my old motherboard but I fixed it bu...
Summary: The CD-ROM in the Dell is actually newer than the drive in which I tested the CD. Also, the CD-ROM in the Dell reads the rest of the CD, provided I do...
Summary: I have a simalary problem maybe someone can help me with. I have three cd-rom drive's an 8x 24x,and 32x that will not read a data cd or a music cd som...
Summary: I am trying to connect a 3.5" IDE CD-ROM drive to a 2.5" IDE ribbon sharing HDD onto a single IDE port on the motherboard of my device. I have a small...
Summary: Hello all, Is it possible for the CDRw to work as an CD-rom. In other words, can I use a CDrW as Cd-rom and still use it as a burner. I dont have a wo...
Summary: Hi people This is an old computer that I have decided to recycle and make a nice linux box. The processor is actualy similar to a P1 and the hdd takes...
Summary: Hi, im using my old laptop...and whenever i connect my cd rom to it thru a PCMCIA-IDE PC CARD (IBM), and go to my comp...i cant see my cd rom drive th...
Summary: Seems to me that you have your jumpers in te wrong slots. There should be a code on the HDD it's self, if not then trial and error will have to happen...
Summary: Try to connect the CD-ROM to another cable on another IDE bus. Do NOT use Cable Select. USE only Master/Slave jumpers. It's nice to be important but i...
Summary: I have an external 'iomega 650 zip' ->usb device.. [cd-rom/cdwriter] old thing.. I no longer care for the writer and I would like it to have a hard dr...
Summary: Hi...are your jumpers set properly? That master - slave? If so then consider the following, you'll need a dos driver for your cd rom to load. Since yo...
Summary: Hello, I rescued an compaq deskpro EN 6400 from the thrift and it works pretty o.k. Runs win 98. However my kids did something and the CD stop working...