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Thread ID: 15998	2002-02-23 09:44:00	Invisible CDwriter	Guest (0)	Press F1

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36770	2002-02-23 09:44:00	My cd writer doesn't seem to be showing up in my computer. It does not even eject when I press the button. Here are the things I tried but didn't work: Borrowed a CDROM from someone to plug in, that couldn't eject either. Used a new IDE cable, didn't work at all. The hard drive works fine, so I figured I could plug the power cable from that into the cdwriter, didn't work. I tried all the power cables inside the PC, none worked. I even tried the emergency eject slot thing, didn't do anything. Do you know what this is? Maybe a power supply problem? But why does the hard drive work, but the cdwriter doesn't?	Guest (0)
36771	2002-02-23 10:03:00	May be a problem of jumper settings on the back of the ROM drives. JM	Guest (0)
36772	2002-02-24 01:44:00	I already tried that one, tried setting the drive as slave and put it on the primary cable, didn't work. And there is nothing on the secondary cable, so I assumed master would work, but it didn't either.	Guest (0)
36773	2002-02-24 03:37:00	Has this drive worked for your before? On that machine? It is not unknown for secondhand CDs to not work. Check that the BIOS has the secondary IDE interface enabled. Some allow it to be turned off. For the paperclip eject, see the 'CD wont; Eject' thread a few days ago.	Guest (0)
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