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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Heat on September 18, 2002, 11:44:58 AM

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: Heat on September 18, 2002, 11:44:58 AM

Is there a way to totally turn it off, its crashing my comp so much, it may be getting fixed tomorrow but for now is there a way without opening it to toally turn it off

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: mm on September 18, 2002, 11:57:23 AM

yes, go into bios and set option to none

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: Samwise on September 18, 2002, 11:59:32 AM

Yeah, find out what channel it\'s on and turn if off.

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: mm on September 18, 2002, 12:00:21 PM

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see where they say auto
change it to none for yer cdrw

when PC boots, it will tell you what each device is on

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 18, 2002, 01:07:43 PM

So it\'s fux0red then?

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: Heat on September 18, 2002, 01:19:53 PM

well I turned it off and that seemed to help, I dont think its looking for it now, I have my mate whos an IT tech coming round tomorrow, if its fixable he\'ll fix it.

Title: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS
Post by: EmperorRob on September 18, 2002, 02:21:38 PM

Do you have auto-insert notification turned on?  If so turn it off and see if prob persists.  That or try putting the drive on different IDE channels.  That will at least tell you if the drive is funky.