Because of johnwill, I am taking off my advice since he doesn't appreciate what I do here for you people! You should thank his rudeness for this.
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Don't let the door hit you in the behind.Deadlus said:Because of johnwill, I am taking off my advice since he doesn't appreciate what I do here for you people! You should thank his rudeness for this.
Start with the basics. Set the BIOS setup to factory defaults first, and check all the cables carefully. If you have one, try another 80 conductor cable. Also, can you just connect the hard disk to the Primary Master connection and see it with a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com? If so, then connect the CD-RW drive and see if you can read it. This could be a number of things, you need to start narrowing it down.rda101 said:I have just bought a new motherboard, (Gigabyte ga-7nnxp running an Athlon 900) and whacked it together. Problem is it can't read the cd-rw drive. In the initial memory-test screen, it detects the hard disk and dvd-rom, but when it actually tries to boot from the dvd-rom, it can't read it. The drive is powered up, but when it tried to boot from it, the read light doesn't come on and it just sits there. I am wanting to intall a fresh OS, but it doesn't seem to be able to see any of the IDE drives.