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CD-ROMs missing

Feb 22, 2004 12:58AM PST

I just helped someone install a new CD-RW into his system along with the old CD-ROM drive. (Win 9Cool Occasionally, after using the computer a while, the drive letters D & E for the CDs disappear. Restarting the computer will bring these back. Does anybody have any suggestions on how to make this stop? Rick Lee

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Re:CD-ROMs missing
Feb 22, 2004 1:11AM PST

The most common reasons are:

1. Motherboard drivers are out of date.
2. The power supply was never upgraded and may have aged which means less Watts than new. Read http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040122/
3. A setup issue. For me, my presciption which I will not debate is to use the new spiffy 80 conductor IDE cables, the FIRMWARE updates to the drives, the motherboard drivers and the CDRW software uptodate and always have an oversized power supply. For this cable the jumper settings are easy. Cable select.

Bob

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Re:Re:CD-ROMs missing
Feb 22, 2004 3:07AM PST

Thanks Bob! That gives me some things to try.