Recent content by hubertus

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    cd-rom failures...

    Yes, but not much luck with this one either. Looks like I'll have to drop this motherboard and get a new one...
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    won't boot from CD

    The CD ir original from Microsoft. I had Windows XP installed on this rig before. It just started acting up recently and I was having problems with accessing my CDs. Now it's all shot, cannot install 98 (had it installed on this rig as well), cannot install XP pro, had it installed before...This...
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    cd-rom failures...

    Yes, you're right on all counts. The same CD ROM will read other CD, audio, games, Win98, win XP (boot) on my other rig, but not on my ax6bc pro. I have tried connecting the drive as primary master, no HD. The BIOS sees it, once I go to DOS to setup I get "CDR01 not ready reading drive E". Boot...
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    won't boot from CD

    All the settigns are fine because bios sees the drive as secondary master. What's bites is that any drive conected to this mobo refuses to read the media (CDs), but the bios sees the drive. ???
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    won't boot from CD

    For some reason my windows xp CD will not work in my memorex CD-ROM drive. I get non bootable Cd message. When I swap the CD-rom I still get the same message. Bios finds the drive without any problems. My mobob is aopen ax6bc pro, bios 1.12. This is my second rig and it just started acting up...
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    cd-rom failures...

    I have aopen ax6bc pro gold (bios 1.12), this is my second machine. CD-rom on this mobo keep failing for some reason. BIOS finds it, everything is fine unil I try and install OS. I have triedboth win98 and xp and I get " CDR01not ready reading drive E". At first I thought that perhaps my CDs...