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February 24th, 2008 16:00

CD/DVD not read by bios

I have a dimension 8400 with a cd drive and a dvd drive.  I installed a new lite on cd drive and now nothing works.  Neither is read by the bios.  I have double checked the seating of all cables, I have checked the jumpers and tried all kinds of combinations.  I even reinstalled the original cd drive and still no bios read.  I also tried just the dvd drive and it is the same...no recognition by the bios.   

 

Any ideas I would appreciate.

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February 24th, 2008 17:00

Set both drive jumpers to cable select. Since you've mucked around with different configurations, it may be necessary to reset BIOS defaults.

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February 26th, 2008 16:00

I know how to get into setup and the bios page, however, I don't understand what you mean by "reset bios default".

 

Thanks

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February 26th, 2008 23:00

The procedure is here.

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February 29th, 2008 14:00

That worked!  thanks so much for taking the time to help.

 

Dave

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March 1st, 2008 09:00

You're welcome, Dave. If you wouldn't mind marking the thread as "solved", I'd appreciate it! :)

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