On Friday 18 June 2004 01:41 am, Lanman wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > > Putting a new Box togeather having trouble installing Mandrake machine is > > setup to boot from CD drive (DVD rom CD-RW combo) > > trouble is system cannot find the drive any suggestions? > > Board is a Jetway V4MDM/V4MDMP > > RAM 512 Mb > > HDa 120G. samsung > > trying to install Mdk-10 > > Aron; Your post says that the system is not detecting the CD Drive? Do > you mean that the CD drive isn't found by the motherboard or by the O/S? > > I just want to be sure I understood you correctly. > > If the drive isn't being detected by the motherboard, try the following; > > 1) Find the jumper on the motherboard to reset the CMOS and follow > Jetway's instructions on resetting it. Make sure that AC power and the > onboard battery are both removed when you do. > > 2) Make sure that you're using an 80 pin cable on the DVD drive. > > 3) Make sure that you have correctly set the Master/Slave jumpers on any > other drives as well as the DVD drive. > > 4) Make sure that you connected power from your PSU to the DVD drive. > > 5) Try switching IDE cables with other ones that you know are in good > shape. > > 6) Disconnect all other drives on the system, and try connecting only > the DVD drive to both the Primary and Secondary IDE interfaces on the > motherboard. > > 7) If none of this works, try any other Optical drive (CD, CDRW, etc.) > on this system board, in case the interfaces or BIOS are defective. > > 8) Try connecting the DVD drive to another system temporarily to see if > it's detected or not - paying attention to Master/Slave jumpers on this > other PC as well. If necessary, disconnect all other drives from this > system while testing the DVD drive, just to make sure that you don't > have a conflict. Remember that the system doesn't need to boot into the > OS to see if the drive is detected or not. > > 9) Replace the motherboard if no other drives or IDE cables do the > trick, and re-run these tests. Oh joy after I get the fence painted Friday ;-D Thanks I want to take a swing at a n Athelon 64 next. > > HTH > > Lanman
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