Weird CD-ROM Drive

[amol]

hah, I was installing a new virusscanner on my parent's HP computer running Windows 98 SE and i kept on typing "D:/" in the run prompt . . .

it kept on saying that there's no D:\, so i opened up the computer, made sure the cables were connected and tried again

didnt work again, so i just went through the alphabet only to find out that HP programmed it as the M:/

????????

 

[Juice Box]

what is that sound....?

I think its the sound of nobody caring 😛

lol j/p thats odd

 

[SynthDude2001]

k

 

[HappyPuppy]

I'm not surprised.

 

[xcript]

An HP, eh? Smash it with a hammer..

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: xcript
An HP, eh? Smash it with a hammer..

I want to, but . . . my dad would kinda get mad at me . . .

600MHz Celeron . . . no video card . . .

 

[SchrodingersDog]

Are there 10 expansion slots?

 

[suse920]

Originally posted by: xcript
An HP, eh? Smash it with a hammer..

:thumbsup:

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: SchrodingersDog
Are there 10 expansion slots?

haha THREE pci slots, no AGP slots

 

[cyclohexane]

um... shouldn't it be D:\?

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
um... shouldn't it be D:\?

thank you, captain obvious

 

[Pepsi90919]

what do you mean "HP programmed it as..." ?? 😕

 

[villageidiot111]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
um... shouldn't it be D:\?

thank you, captain obvious

thank you, captain insult

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
what do you mean "HP programmed it as..." ?? 😕

uhhh . . . hmmm . . . i dont know

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
um... shouldn't it be D:\?

thank you, captain obvious

:thumbsup:

I go up to N with the memory card reader on my HP printer, but that's crazy that it was M on its own. I'm suprised when I see anything higher than E on someones computer I'm fixing.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
um... shouldn't it be D:\?

thank you, captain obvious

well the OP was typing D:/

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Amol

Originally posted by: cyclohexane
um... shouldn't it be D:\?

thank you, captain obvious

well the OP was typing D:/

well, when you type that in run prompt, it still goes to D:\ :roll:

 

[Slacker]

WTF? There are a dozen things you could have done before opening the case :roll:

 

[BHeemsoth]

uhhh HP did not program it that way. Get your head out of your @ss on that one.

Go into drive management and assign it the letter d:.

No biggie, any half rate technician should have no problem accomplishing this.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: suse920

Originally posted by: xcript
An HP, eh? Smash it with a hammer..

:thumbsup:

 

[imported_Hi]

thats how they did it on my moms computer the two cd-rom drives came up as M:/ and N:/

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: rpbri2886
uhhh HP did not program it that way. Get your head out of your @ss on that one.

Go into drive management and assign it the letter d:.

No biggie, any half rate technician should have no problem accomplishing this.

ya dont think i already did that? :roll: