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| 155670 | 2003-06-27 11:49:00 | Helpful student visiting me decided to fiddle with the standard settings of bios etc. I have Intel Celeron 500 Mhz with 128mb RAM, OS is Windows XP Pro. The CD wont read data, the 3.5 FDD is working OK. Is the settings in the Standard CMOS where I should be looking? or the Power management ares, which is where the X-welcome visitor appears to have been. All help is gratefully received. Don |
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| 155671 | 2003-06-27 12:41:00 | Is it atapi or scsi, that could have been changed in the bios. check in the device manager in control panel, system, hardware, device manager. If there is a yellow exclamation or red circle with bar your CD is disabled for some reason. You may be able to simply enable it by double clicking on it to bring up properties and choose enable (I'm assuming here that winXP is the same as Win2K pro in this respect, if its not post back with waht you see or wait for someone with xp), you might need to load std win driver for the mo until its up and running again. You could also try add/remove hardware but try the above first. HTH Murray P |
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| 155672 | 2003-06-28 10:40:00 | Thanks Murray, I am using the Non-Scsi config, and the Win XP side is OK, as am told all drivers are OK. will check again thru the Bios settings again. |
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