Author Topic: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS (Read 769 times)

« **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

« **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2002, 11:57:23 AM »

yes, go into bios and set option to none

« **Reply #2 on:** September 18, 2002, 11:59:32 AM »

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

« **Reply #3 on:** September 18, 2002, 12:00:21 PM »

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

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

Kurt Angle · « **Reply #4 on:** September 18, 2002, 01:07:43 PM »

So it\'s fux0red then?

« **Reply #5 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.

« **Reply #6 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.

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Author Topic: need help ASAP, can I turn a CDRW drive off from BIOS (Read 769 times)