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Bizarre CD-Rom trouble



On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:22PM -0500, Josh Pollak wrote:
> I've swapped drives repeatedly, and each time with the same result, it 
> will eject and work fine once or twice, and then it starts freaking 
> out. What could be causing this? I thought maybe the secondary IDE 
> controller was screwed up, but it recognizes and reads from the drives 
> just fine, so I'm really puzzled.

Check for weird BIOS settings. For example, does this
motherboard offer a "no-boot CD player" option?

-dsr-




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