Is your CDROM drive powered by itself, or does it use USB power? If USB power, does it have a double cable that goes into two ports? If not, have you tried a different USB port in case the polyfuse on the one you were on opened?
- Alex -- Smart is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wise is knowing better than to put one in a fruit salad. On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Martin N <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have googled the problem and have come across a fix that says to change > SATA mode to compatibility from AHCI. (ThinkWiki) > > Sadly it doesn't work the CD drive is not accessed and doesn't appear in > the > boot list on the f12 key. > > Even more annoying is that I had it booting off cd with this drive earlier > in the > day but after poking around in the BIOS it doesn't work anymore :( > > I have USB boot and USB power on (low power conditions) options enabled as > well. > > So what obvious thing have I missed? > > Thanks for your time > > Martin N > > Moderator of MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/**mailman/listinfo/thinkpad<http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad> > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
