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Subject: Re: help

Author:
PanZer

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Date Posted: 06:19:07 09/01/01 Sat
In reply to: Plebius 's message, "Re: help" on 02:20:31 09/01/01 Sat

Gee i guess you have had the pleasure of working with a lot of new machines plebius. I have a lot of old shitty comps. Well the newer Bios's dont need a CD-ROM driver to run generic CD-ROM drives, but the older machines do. The dirver is not really there to detect the CD-ROM but to tell BIOS how to talk to the CD-ROM. I have tryed to run a old comp with no CD-ROM driver. I would set the CD-ROM up in CMOS setup and the BIOS checks to see if it is there on boot but when you try to change to the CD-ROM drive you get the Invalid Drive Specification error message.

Also when you reformat a HD and you sys the boot partition you dont erase the Master boot Record so if the CD-ROM driver happens to be in the MBR from the old setup it appers to have a CD-ROM supporting BIOS in it, but it really does not. Thats y sometimes when you reformat and your in the setup for the new OS sometimes the mouse works and sometimes it dont. All depending on what is in the MBR (Master Boot Record).

But what crash sayed is really all you need to do. The image i have has all that done. The reason it is so helpful to me is that i dont just have one CD-ROM driver on it. I have a bunch including SCSI CD-ROM drivers as well.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: help	Plebius	14:00:43 09/01/01 Sat