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| Thread ID: 59420 | 2005-07-02 03:25:00 | HELP! I need help installing a DVD Burner | xjc (8461) | Press F1 |
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| 368619 | 2005-07-02 22:41:00 | OK from the top: Did your new drive come with a cable? If so.. use it. If not go to DSE and ask for 80-wire IDE cable (with 3 connections) At the back of the 2 CD/DVD drives are the jumpers .. set your new drive to MA, and the older drive to SL. Connect the 2 drives with the IDE cable... the cable should have 3 connectors 2 are reasonably close together, one is further away. The one thats furthest away connects to the motherboard, the MA drive connects at the other end, and the SL drive connects in the middle. When the computer boots up, are they detected in BIOS? If not go into CMOS (usually you press either F2 or DEL to get there) and make sure theat are enabled. They should be set as AUTOdetect If they are detected in BIOS, are they detected in device manager? If not you may have unconnect the drives from the motherboard, boot to Windows, and uninstall the CD/DVD drives (which hopefully will get rid of the registry settings for the drives as well). Last question... what kind of power supply do you have? Wattage etc |
Myth (110) | ||
| 368620 | 2005-07-04 02:05:00 | Just found this excellent howto if you're still having problems netscape.com.com |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 368621 | 2005-07-04 02:22:00 | Ok, when I go into BIOS it says its connected. But when I select "Start Windows Normally" it does the thing with Windows XP Home Edition, with the loading bar. It loads, and then the screen goes black. To tell you the truth, so for some reason the place where the log in screen is is all black. In all essence, the computer did start up normally, it just wont show me the stupid log in screen. | xjc (8461) | ||
| 368622 | 2005-07-04 03:23:00 | Might be time for a trip to a reputable repair shop and get them to sort it out | bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
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