PC CD-ROM drives

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat May 4 08:01:33 2002

At 12:03 AM 5/4/02 -0400, Glen wrote:

>
>Unless Win9X is hosed. Yesterday I worked on a Gateway P-III running Win
>98, which wouldn't boot, but hung on the splash screen. Yanked the IDE
>cable off of the CD-ROM drive and the system booted and all devices worked
>perfectly. Tested the drive in another box; the drive was fine. Put
>another drive in the Gateway -- no boot. Took CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT,
>WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI out of the picture. No boot. Moved the drive from
>master to slave. No boot. Replaced the IDE ribbon. No boot. Put the
>drive on the same ribbon as the hdd, hdd as master, CD-ROM drive as slave.
>No boot. Uninstalled and reinstalled the motherboard drivers. No boot.
>Pulled the hdd, put in a new one, loaded Win98, and the system booted and
>the CD-ROM drive worked. Put the original hdd back in -- no boot. Reset
>the BIOS to default settings and made sure both IDE ports were turned on.
>No boot. Verified that both ports were visible to Windows -- no boot.
>Turned DMA off in Windows -- no boot. Ran a virus check and didn't find
>anything.
>
>Did I miss anything? (serious question). Finally I wiped and reloaded the
>hdd and all was well. I've seen this five or six times in ten years. It's
>something deep down in the Windows goo . . .
>
>Apologies -- seriously OT.


  No, just a few years ahead of it's time :-)

   Joe
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>Glen
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Received on Sat May 04 2002 - 08:01:33 BST