28 Dec
2005
28 Dec
'05
4:56 a.m.
On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 01:35 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
You might want to first check your BIOS settings for the CDROM drive, and then the data cable. I really don't think there is such a thing as an incompatible CDROM, but I have seen some BIOS settings making CDROM drives behave weirdly.
Don't forget you can completely _disable_ the sucker in the BIOS. Yeah, you can't boot from it, but you only need that during an install.
In fact, I keep some old Promise Ultra33 PCI cards around, with the BIOS DIP package yanked off, explicitly for problematic CD-ROMs that have issues during the POST or early in the on-chipset support.
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