POS Dell cd rom issues help please!!!

disturbed13

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okay i have an old dell dimension 2400
it has a single optical drive
a cd rom
and now its being a pain in the................... what ever
it doesnt matter what cd i insert inside
it wont play it
can anyone help me out?
what can i try?
thanks for the help

here is a pic btw
driverissuespart1.jpg

i hope that everyone can read the message
nope
here is a better pic
driverissuespart1-1.jpg
 
as old as the pc
like 4 years
if its dyeing
then i might as well build a cheap budget pc to place this HDD in and save all of my files
 
Is this an IDE drive? How is the jumper set? Is it slave or master? And is the drive being detected at POST?

Age Of Empires FTW!
 
Is this an IDE drive? How is the jumper set? Is it slave or master? And is the drive being detected at POST?

Age Of Empires FTW!

yes it is an IDE
jumper? as of right now i dont know please explain a little bit more
its a master (only optical drive that i have in it, no floppy either)
at POST
i dunno about that either, what is POST?

and what does FTW mean?
 
Age of Empires for the win?
what did i miss?

any who if someone could please help me out it would be greatly appreciated
thanks
 
yes it is an IDE
jumper? as of right now i dont know please explain a little bit more
its a master (only optical drive that i have in it, no floppy either)
at POST
i dunno about that either, what is POST?
Jumper, the a little cap on that connects one pin to another, like this:

jumper.jpg


It could be set to slave, and as your drive is master, the jumper should be set accordingly. You'll have to experiment to find the right position.

POST is the series of lines you see when you first boot up. It will list all the detected hardware. Alternatively, you could enter your BIOS (usually the key is delete) and see if the drive is present. Is it present in "My Computer" too?

Age of Empires for the win?
what did i miss?
AOE is awesome!
 
Jumper, the a little cap on that connects one pin to another, like this:

jumper.jpg


It could be set to slave, and as your drive is master, the jumper should be set accordingly. You'll have to experiment to find the right position.

POST is the series of lines you see when you first boot up. It will list all the detected hardware. Alternatively, you could enter your BIOS (usually the key is delete) and see if the drive is present. Is it present in "My Computer" too?


AOE is awesome!

AOE is awesome, if i could ever play it :(
and once my project (see sig) is finished then ill put AOE III on it
anywho the cd rom isnt present :( :( :(
even with a cd inside
and mine doesnt have a jumper on it at all
hang on let me check my BIOS in XP its delete while it boots?
well i shall soon find out

mmmmkkkkkay

that didnt work at all
how do i get into my BIOS on XP?
 
You enter the BIOS before your OS boots. The key is most commonly delete, but it could be something else, you need to press it at POST.
 
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