... I've got a spare, working cdrom that you can 'borrow' for the duration, but cannot make the meeting tomorrow. Can you/anyone else pick it up from the CBD?
What colour do you want it (: Steve On Mon, September 12, 2005 1:53 pm, motivated wrote: > You cannot use the cd for anything, its just not there as far as the comp > is > concerned. > > The cdrom worked fine, but I neglected my studies and left it sitting in > the > corner for a couple of mths after installing mandrake. When I finally got > back to it the draw wouldnt open. I removed it and replaced it with an old > one, but that didnt work at all. A few days later I got back to it and > re-inserted the original and the draw decided to open, but now the comp > cant > see it. > > I'm beginning to think my ladys brother has done something to it, but I > cant > remember him being around at the time, and I dare not ask as thats like > accusing Jesus of spitting on the sidewalk. > >>>> Are you running the kernel plus modules as supplied by the >>>> distributor, > or > is this a kernel you have compiled yourself? > > Are you kidding ! > I'm still trying to figure out what you guys are talking about. If I > couldnt > install it with the original install then it just wasn't going to happen. > > The CDROM drive I have in the machine now is an old one (pre computer age, > its closer to a record turn table). Its an old "creative" thing, I called > it > junk until last night. The one that was in the comp looks like the > original, > or it did till last night, it now doesn't have a front. > > Power is connected. I replaced and re-replaced the ribbon cable. I have > tried booting from a win98 boot disk. And now I'm about to crash test it > by > dropping it from the top of the cathedral. After that I'm taking it for > swimming lessons. > > Am I frustrated, no, but I will be if it floats. > > Yep, I would definitely appreciate some help. This is the only comp I have > to learn on. And, while on the subject of help, thankyou to all that have > done their best with this matter. > > Thanks again Chris. > Regards Kelvyn. > > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
