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Old April 9th 06, 01:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
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Default cd rom problem

I was able to get a cd rom drive working in my friends computer. There were
some multiple problems and one may have caused the other, I just don't know.
Maybe one of you would know. The cd rom drive was bad. I put the bad drive
in one of my computers and it done the same thing in mine as it did my
friends computer. I did check the power cable and ide ribbon using the good
cd rom and determined that the cables were good, however the IDE 2 is bad.
Nothing would work coming out of IDE 2. Dell has everything so tight in the
box that I had to go get a longer ide cable so I could daisy chain the hard
drive with the cd rom. I set the cd rom to slave and booted it up and
everything worked fine.
I am updating her virus definitions as I type and then I will run Adware and
hijackthis to make sure she is good to go.
Since the IDE2 went out, is that a good indication that she may want to
start looking for another computer? I bought her a used cd rom drive so her
daughter could continue her school work and it wouldn't cost her much to
keep this computer going a little longer.
Thanks to everyone for helping me in this learning process. I appreciate
eveyones help.
tom



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I am working on a friends Dell Computer. She brought it to me because the
CD Rom would open and not go back in. I replaced the drive with an old
drive I had in another computer. Now it stays in and it is getting power
but I cant get the computer to see it. It is not showing up in My Computer
of Windows Explorer. I did try the jumper in all three positions and still
no luck.
I did have to use the generic cd rom driver from a windows 98 boot disc.
Could that be the problem?
I was going to get her a new cd rom drive but now I am not sure if I want
to do that. Especcially if I cant get the drive working that i have. Any
advice is appreciated.

tom



 




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