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by beevers1987

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HI
If possible can someone help me
recently my sony cdrw/dvd rom died on me i replaced it with a Pioneer DVR-112,
i removed the old drive, plugged in the new
stared the computer, it took a while to load up, but it did load up and everything seem to be running fine, a few hours later the compuetre crashed, restarted and came up with the message disk boot failure insert legacy disk
looking on the bios boot tab the ide hard drive was 2nd on the boot list and was displaying that there was no HD
i do not have the greatest understanding of the mechanics of computers so any hlp would be apprecited
thanks
chris

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by rob miners

When you replaced the CD did you remove any cables from the motherboard? You should have only undone the IDE cable and the Power cable, Audio and maybe 4 retaining screws from the CD itself. At the cable end of the CD there are jumper settings. Master, Slave and Cable select. If you still have the old CD compare the jumpers to make sure that they match. EG: old CD Master : new CD Master. If they are different set it up the same as the old one.
We will check this first and see how we get on.

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