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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 "Tom C" wrote in message ... 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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