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| 247751 | 2004-06-26 11:04:00 | I recently acquired an old IBM Netfinity 3500 from a mate. It had a CDROM that came with it, which of course wasn't attached. So I grabbed a spare IDE cable and plugged it into IDE controller 1 (the hard drive is SCSI, the only other things I can see in there are a video card and the floppy). I'm pretty sure its plugged in right, but I can't seem to get the BIOS to recognize it, or find the setting that would make it recognize it. | dariog (2111) | ||
| 247752 | 2004-06-26 13:06:00 | >I'm pretty sure its plugged in right Try the other way either on the mobo or the drive Rob |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 247753 | 2004-06-26 14:13:00 | do you know if the CDrom drive works?? maybe it was disconnection because it dident work...... |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 247754 | 2004-06-26 23:02:00 | No, I'm not sure it works, but i seems to open and close and spin OK, usually a sign of it working? Plus, I've had a CDROM before that wouldn't read discs but it would still spin and everything, the BIOS recognized that one. But you're right, I might just have to assume its broken unless I can plug it into another comp to check. |
dariog (2111) | ||
| 247755 | 2004-06-26 23:15:00 | > Try the other way either on the mobo or the drive How do you mean other way? I tried plugging the CDROM into IDE controller 2 on the mobo, no luck. It won't even let me into the BIOS now, all I get is the startup IBM logo and a flashing cursor, at which I can't type anything. |
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