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Land of Oz
Registered:
June 2004
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Help with my PC IDE problem, please
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Thu, 30 December 2004 22:23
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Hi,
My PC has gone all stupid, and hope someone here can help me or offer some pointers before I pull it apart to find the fault.
It's an old Asus A7V m/bd, running 1G Athlon, Win98, IBM 40G HDD, Sony CD-ROM and a Sony CD writer. The HDD is attached to the Primary IDE Master port and the CDs are attached to the Secondary IDE master.
The BIOS msgs on power-up used to display "Sony CD" on the Secondary IDE Master, but now it displays something like "!ONY >>>!>>>!!>>!!". WTF does that mean?
Win98 used to show the D-drive as the CD writer and the E-drive as the CD-ROM, but now only shows D-drive as an audio-only device, and this device is the CD-ROM. So, the CD-ROM has gone from D to E drive, and is audio-only, and the CD-writer is not there anymore.
I think it may be a hardware fault with the m/bd or maybe a BIOS problem. Could be a blown CD unit, but I'm not sure.
I could reload the m/bd BIOS again to see if that fixes it. I'll be bummed if it's a m/bd fault. I might remove the CDs and see what happens. But, I'm asking for you guys assistance before I get down & dirty with this old box.
seeyuzz
river
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Help with my PC IDE problem, please
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river | Thu, 30 December 2004 22:23 |
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bathurst-91 | Thu, 30 December 2004 22:43 |
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4AGE | Tue, 04 January 2005 02:16 |
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Toobs | Tue, 04 January 2005 06:18 |
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mikey93 | Tue, 04 January 2005 07:35 |
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4AGE | Wed, 05 January 2005 01:22 |
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thu187 | Tue, 11 January 2005 04:32 |
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river | Tue, 11 January 2005 04:46 |
