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Date Posted: 08:56:05 09/17/04 Fri
Author: Garvey Ndukwe
Subject: Re: compaq presrioa 1277 problem
In reply to: Ginger 's message, "compaq presrioa 1277 problem" on 16:38:22 12/02/03 Tue

>I have a compaq presario 1277 laptop and i am having a
>problem with the cd drive. When i put a disk in i get
>a message that says the device is not ready. The
>computer has not been used in approx. 6 months, but it
>was working fine before. Does anyone know what might
>be causing this problem and what i could do to fix
>it?Thanks
Get into the CMOS setup and setup/install/enable some IDE option for the CDROM maybe as ATAPI or so. Then reboot. Next use a Win98 boot disk and see if you can access it in DOS mode also.
Good luck

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