that wire you disconnected may have been the digital out wire for your
soundcard.  not a problem if you don't listen to audio cds directly.  
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 05:39, Josh Tiner wrote:
> Dylan:
> 
> There is no such wire that would cause that - but you may want to go
> into your BIOS and check the order of your boot devices.
> 
> -jtiner
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Dylan
> William Hardison
> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 3:24 AM
> To: Suncoast LUG
> Subject: [SLUG] Booting CD-ROMS
> 
> Hi... What would cause a CD-ROM drive to stop booting from a bootable
> cd?
> 
> Is there like a little wire, that connects to the CD-ROM drive that
> makes it bootable? I ask because I may have disconnected such a wire...
> 
> Bah, now I'll have to find a floppy to 'force' it. :(
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