Hi Bernie,
Chances are it just needs cleaning ! Although if the laser has been
spiked it could be down on power ! Pop it into another machine and see
if it behaves the same way !
On Monday 26 June 2006 18:01, Bernie Cosell Inscribed Thus:
> On 26 Jun 2006 at 7:16, Sharol wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, did the problem start before or after you
> > replaced the power supply?
>
> After -- that's why I was wondering if the flaking-out *old* PS might
> have damaged something (I was guessing/hoping that the new one was
> OK).
>
> But I have another amusing little problem I discovered. I went to
> burn the MS memory diag to a CD and my system will now not recognize
> a blank CD-R. I put in a blank CD, the drive light flashes for a
> while, and then explorer (and Nero) both resolutely tell me that the
> drive is empty. So I burned the CD on my desktop system, and tried
> to boot from it. The BIOS boot sequence did a "booting from ATAPI
> drive"... but it wouldn't boot [and eventually timed ou and just
> booted from the HD. This from both my drives [the CD-RW drive and
> the DVD burner]. Very odd -- sounding more and more like something
> got fried on my MoBo when the power supply flaked out. Oddly: the
> DVD drive still works fine for burning DVDs and the CD-ROM drive
> seems to work with "pitted" CD's, rather than burned ones... I
> wonder how hard/expensive it is to get a new MoBo [and I wonder if I
> can even *find* a floppy to see if my ailing desktop will be able to
> boot from it..:o)]
>
> /Bernie\
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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