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by JR1of9
Thu Dec 05, 2002 8:13 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: where did the CD-ROM drive go?
Replies: 8
Views: 1305

where did the CD-ROM drive go?

I pulled the CD drive out and took the housing off to see the lens...dirty maybe... cause it appeared to be working fine - opened and closed when the eject button was pushed, light went on and I could hear the spinning when a CD was inserted; DOS just didn't see it... So I took a Q-tip with alcohol ...
by JR1of9
Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:07 am
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: OS won't load on ECS K7S5A
Replies: 1
Views: 379

OS won't load on ECS K7S5A

Everything seem to be running just great for a couple of weeks. Then it started "getting buggy," error msg's, trouble getting game CD's to auto-start… I did try to "tweak" some improvements in the BIOS along the way; but that's all history now because… I finally decided to reform...
by JR1of9
Tue Nov 26, 2002 7:52 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: where did the CD-ROM drive go?
Replies: 8
Views: 1305

where did the CD-ROM drive go

I'm not overclocking.

I did get rid of WinME when I reformatted the hard drive;
but I can't install any OS if she don't see the CD-Rom drive...??
by JR1of9
Wed Nov 20, 2002 11:17 pm
Forum: General Hardware
Topic: where did the CD-ROM drive go?
Replies: 8
Views: 1305

where did the CD-ROM drive go?

Formatted and put a single partition on the hard drive. Installed WinME and various gaming applications. Along the way updated DirectX and went into the BIOS a couple of times to tweak settings. After the box being up and running for a couple of weeks I started getting the error msg after boot up: R...