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Thread ID: 21349 2002-06-23 11:38:00 cdrom intermittent recognition Don McA (588) Press F1
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56744 2002-06-23 11:38:00 Have a colleagues PCCompany Duron 500/WinME. It got Nimba and I organised for him to run the Fix Nimba solution from Symantec. Seemed to be successful. Went good for a day but then kept on freezing. Have gone through the 4 categories of restore provided on the emergency disc to no avail. Also the cdrom is only intemittently recognised by bios at boot. About 50% time no cdrom. One of the initial symptoms was flickering cdrom led accompanied by freeze/unfreeze desktop. I am assuming it is a faulty cdrom. Could it be anything else? Advice appreciated. regards
Don
Don McA (588)
56745 2002-06-23 12:31:00 Open 'er up. Check that all the plugs and chips are in properly. I solved a similar problem just by 'wiggling' the CD connectors - must have taken off the oxidation or something. Elwin Way (229)
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