CD-ROM drive? Which CD-ROM drive?
Wednesday, 14 January 2004 06:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
For some reason, my computer has decided not to recognise its two CD-ROM drives when it started up.
When this started happening, I thought I'd try detaching the cable from the motherboard and plugging it in again; that worked, kind of. At the next boot, the system recognised both drives again. But afterwards, they were gone.
This morning, for some reason, it decided to recognise them again. Bizarre.
I wonder whether the computer is simply getting old (perhaps some capacitors going wonky?). It also decides to freeze occasionally. Perhaps that's its way of saying "I'm just a piece of consumer equipment and am not designed to last more than two years; please spend lots of money on a replacement". *sigh*
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Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:41 (UTC)*puzzled*
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Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 21:45 (UTC)Then I was forced to re-install Windoze one afternoon, and the problem vanished. Dumb machines, anyway.
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Date: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 22:34 (UTC)Ended up reinstalling windows :)
No problems since.. (not including windows itself :D)
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Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:36 (UTC)Though I'm not sure how reinstalling Windows is going to help if the BIOS doesn't detect them during boot-up -- long before the operating system is loaded from disk.
I hope I won't end up having to do that anyway.
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Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 00:51 (UTC)However I don't know much about the BIOS. So I'm afraid I don't have any more ideas..
When you figure it out, let me know what you did?
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Date: Wednesday, 14 January 2004 04:05 (UTC)