I got several issues for y'all...
Just built my new machine, see the link below for specs. I'm having problems with the optical drives. The CDRW won't stay open - when you eject the disc, it immediately pulls back in. Makes it very hard to change discs... On top of that, W2K periodically claims that I've disconnected the DVD drive. It's still there and connected - windows recognizes it again immediately after complaining. Any suggestions on where to start to fix these? I know the CDRW problem isn't the drive, I had it in another machine with no problems. I have the drives set up as follows: IBM 60gxp as primary master. CDRW as 2nd master, DVD as 2nd slave.
Another problem with this machine - it won't shutdown or restart properly. Picking either option from w/in windows has the same result - the machine "partially" shuts down. The CPU and case fans stay on, the cd/dvd drives still have power, but the chipset fan stops and the monitor indicates no signal. It takes pressing the reset button to get going again.
Third problem - this is on my parents box. It's a gateway P3/450 (about a year old). I've got both machine (theirs and mine) hooked up via a netgear RT314 to a cable modem and to provide connection between them. I can't get their machine to share drives though. It's running 98 and I go into the network setting and select share drives and printers (via tcp/ip, the only protocol installed). It insists on a reboot and then when it comes up, the proper options are still selected in the network settings but it won't allow me to actually share the drives. Any ideas there?:frown:
Just built my new machine, see the link below for specs. I'm having problems with the optical drives. The CDRW won't stay open - when you eject the disc, it immediately pulls back in. Makes it very hard to change discs... On top of that, W2K periodically claims that I've disconnected the DVD drive. It's still there and connected - windows recognizes it again immediately after complaining. Any suggestions on where to start to fix these? I know the CDRW problem isn't the drive, I had it in another machine with no problems. I have the drives set up as follows: IBM 60gxp as primary master. CDRW as 2nd master, DVD as 2nd slave.
Another problem with this machine - it won't shutdown or restart properly. Picking either option from w/in windows has the same result - the machine "partially" shuts down. The CPU and case fans stay on, the cd/dvd drives still have power, but the chipset fan stops and the monitor indicates no signal. It takes pressing the reset button to get going again.
Third problem - this is on my parents box. It's a gateway P3/450 (about a year old). I've got both machine (theirs and mine) hooked up via a netgear RT314 to a cable modem and to provide connection between them. I can't get their machine to share drives though. It's running 98 and I go into the network setting and select share drives and printers (via tcp/ip, the only protocol installed). It insists on a reboot and then when it comes up, the proper options are still selected in the network settings but it won't allow me to actually share the drives. Any ideas there?:frown:
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