RE: [SLUG] Booting CD-ROMS

From: Eric Jahn (eric@ejahn.net)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 10:32:27 EDT


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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