There are a number of issues to check for not being
able to boot from CD.
Firstly the bios. The bios must support it, and the
CD must be ATAPI standards compliant (ie. some old
cdroms will not boot but work just fine other than
that)
Sedondly, the connections. power connection IDE
connection ( preferably slave on second IDE bus),
and/or audio connection... the little wire was
probably that and has nothing to do with it being able
to boot from CD.
Lastly, if the CDrom is as you say .. was working and
now it is not then there is two possibilities...
either the cdrom is malfunctioning or the CD is
damaged.. if other cd's will boot then it's the CD..
if not then try using a CDrom cleaner cd witht he
little brush on it.. maybe some dirt is keeping it
from reading properly. All else fails then try a
different CDRom.
Good Luck
Rob
--- Dylan William Hardison <dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:
> The BIOS looks the same as before, and "ATAPI CDROM"
> is the first
> bootable device, followed by the floppy, and the
> hard drive...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 14, 2003 at 05:39AM -0400, 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.
> :(
> >
> > --
> > Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas
> good men eat and drink
> > that they may live.
> > -- Socrates
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> good men eat and drink
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