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So, I replaced the rather noisy Sony CD-RW drive in my Dimension 8400 with
the Samsung SW-252B CD-RW and installed the Nero software which came with
it. The drive works fine although somewhat slower than it burned on my old
desktop. The buffer keeps bottoming out which is slowing it down. But the
CD which I just made works just fine.
Anyway, when booting the system up I get a message that it can't recognize
the CD-RW drive and to hit F1 to continue or F2 to run the setup utility.
Hitting F2 just puts me in the BIOS and I don't see any place to set up
that drive. Hitting F1 just boots as normal. Does anyone know of how I
can either set up the BIOS to recognize the drive on booting or set it up
so I don't get that message that it doesn't recognize the drive?
One more thing while we're on the topic, I noticed while I had the case
open that both the DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive were set up for cable select
instead of master and slave. I left it on cable select at first, but after
the not recognizing message on bootup I changed it to master and slave.
Which is better?
Dave
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We are the US military. Your asses will be kicked. Resistance is futile.
US Army Signal Corps!
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So, I replaced the rather noisy Sony CD-RW drive in my Dimension 8400 with
the Samsung SW-252B CD-RW and installed the Nero software which came with
it. The drive works fine although somewhat slower than it burned on my old
desktop. The buffer keeps bottoming out which is slowing it down. But the
CD which I just made works just fine.
Anyway, when booting the system up I get a message that it can't recognize
the CD-RW drive and to hit F1 to continue or F2 to run the setup utility.
Hitting F2 just puts me in the BIOS and I don't see any place to set up
that drive. Hitting F1 just boots as normal. Does anyone know of how I
can either set up the BIOS to recognize the drive on booting or set it up
so I don't get that message that it doesn't recognize the drive?
One more thing while we're on the topic, I noticed while I had the case
open that both the DVD-ROM and CD-RW drive were set up for cable select
instead of master and slave. I left it on cable select at first, but after
the not recognizing message on bootup I changed it to master and slave.
Which is better?
Dave
--
We are the US military. Your asses will be kicked. Resistance is futile.
US Army Signal Corps!
www.geocities.com/davidcasey98
Remove IH8SPAM to reply by email!