loninappleton

After running Boot nuke a diffeent small bios menu displayed and I was
able to enter BIOS setup.

This is progress of a sort.

But what I found in setup went like this:

The order of drive recognition was not going properly.

I may have just been not understanding all the pluses and minuses to move
the drive order.

But this was a fact: no cdrom is recognized.

When I saw this I looked at the drive. It looked to be a standard Samsung CDROM. There was a jumper on cable select. I figured that whomever did this
setup wanted the CDROM disabled so only an official tech could come in and
make it work.

I moved the jumper to what I figured was 'master' on the drive-- the
pin furthest right looking at the rear of the drive rather than furthest left. I could only infer all this stuff because the Samsung has no markings for jumpers and I used a different one.


The CDROM slid out of the cage easily.

I think what is going on is a different problem area than the hard drive which
seems to be recognized ok.


I'm going to try to swap in a cdrom rom drive from my stack of used
parts.

Will look for replies and report back shortly.