[geeks] Argh.

[William S.]

Strange coincidence: My CD-ROM on the pc I use decided not
to work yesterday. It had been working intermittently over
the past several years but I never really used it much
so I did not feel compelled to replace it. I think it is
probably a problem with the connector because if I
jiggle it, there is some activity. For now, I just unplugged
the cables and the Bios goes through fine and the system
boot stops hanging.

Good luck, Josh.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:43:15PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> I'm sick.  I wasted several hours this evening on that infernal Netgear.  Now
> I'm trying to finish homework due first thing in the morning, using windows
> only software (the option is use the damn software or take an F in the class).
> And my bloody windows machines goes south.  Apparently the CD-ROM, the only
> good one I have ('cept for the plextor from Mike N), died.  I was keyed to
> there being a problem by the lack of CD icon when I needed to get a file off
> of a CD.  And now when I went to reboot it won't get past the Bios testing
> the drives.  This drive was working last night.  Darn it, darn it, darn it.
> 
> Now I have to pull this stupid machine out of the stack and open it up and
> hope it is a simple fix.  Otherwise I'm screwed.
> 
> The software was a one time install from web thing.  If I want it on a 
> different machine, I have to cough up more money.
> 
-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL