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Gerrich   05-20-2007 at 05:29:51 AM

I just installed a Samsung DVD/CD combo drive. It works well with the exception that I cannot boot from it. I have changed the bios and tried manually choosing the drive as well but with no success. Any ideas?

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badge   05-20-2007 at 06:58:49 AM
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I just installed a Samsung DVD/CD combo drive. It works well with the exception that I cannot boot from it. I have changed the bios and tried manually choosing the drive as well but with no success. Any ideas?



I would try a different drive if you have one. My Samsung dvd/cd combo is not a high quality, solid as a rock piece of hardware. If you don't have a different drive to work with, try a new IDE cable.

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dblD   05-20-2007 at 07:51:49 AM
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I seriously doubt it has _anything_ to do with the drive itself as most know that any recent samsung drive supports all current booting protocols.(i.e. you'll be wasting a lot of time and effort chasing samsung drive issues). (assuming you don't have a wiring issue :),) It is either that your bios doesn't support booting from an optical device or the boot-device order is incorrect. Double check your bios settings again (I'm sure you already know that you have the latest bios image :) so that's probably not an problem). If you continue to have issues, post your MoBo info.

best,
--DD

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Crashman   05-20-2007 at 08:42:20 AM
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What motherboard/chipset?

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Gerrich   05-22-2007 at 07:48:21 AM
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Thanks for the help. The mb is a gigabyte 965P-ds3 rev.2.
Any ideas would help.

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Crashman   05-22-2007 at 08:17:54 AM
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Ah, the CD-ROM is on the JMicron controller, relabled as GigaRAID. It should be set in IDE mode by default, and if so, should also show up in Gigabyte's main BIOS page.

If all these settings are correct, than it should be bootable.

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dblD   05-22-2007 at 09:51:06 AM
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oohh -- I just knew it just couldn't be samsung drive related as I boot from a couple of different samsung drives right now! crashman, u da man!! :)

Best
--DD

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Crashman   05-22-2007 at 10:16:54 AM
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I wouldn't know...all my Samsung drives died.

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