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by maya.salim

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Hello,

I need help with my computer. I recently bought a new LG dvd burner (multi dvd rewriter, Model GH22NP20) for my computer. It's a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, 1GB RAM, Motherboard is Gigabyte GA 8LD533, HD Seagate Barracude ATA IV 40 GB. I installed my dvd driver, connect it to my computer, set it as slave, as i have a cd rom (sony cdrom model no. CDU5211). They're both in secondary IDE channel different from the harddisk. But, then I got a disk boot failure message. I've changed the master/slave position between the cdrom and the dvd rom and now i couldn't have both roms working, eventough I've set the bios to boot from hdd whenever I attach the cd or dvd rom. Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Maya

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by rob miners

dislodged the cables from the hard drive. Set the Sony as a Slave and the LG as Master and connect it to the end of the Secondary IDE cable.

If that doesn't work remove the Sony and see what happens.

Keep us informed as to your progress if you require further assistance. ;) :D

by oh smeg

Some of these Gigabyte M'Boards have a very tight fit for the 80 way IDE leads and they can work out very easily. Just the cable being moved around is sometimes enough to allow the Blue Plug to slightly work off the M'Board and loose a proper connection.

Also double check the Power Plugs on all of these devices sometimes they are very tight and are not plugged in correctly when you think that they are.

Col

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