Y'know, I weary of hardware.  How long till we can
have a nice, totally virtual machine?  ;-)

Over a year ago I got a new mother board -- I think it's
an EliteGroup (I saw a negative comment about that brand
on this list recently), and it has an Athlon 1.3GHz CPU --
from Fry's.  It has worked OK, except (some of you might
remember) I had my CD burner die on me.  Windows would
blue-screen, while Linux still worked.  Then later I
couldn't burn CDs under Linux either, so I yanked the
device and did without.  A few months passed . . .

OK, now it appears my system won't tolerate *any* CD device.
I changed out the cable.  I ran memtest and memtest86
for many hours ... memtest86 is a little hard to read,
I'll run a few tests yet, but I'm guessing it's OK.

Changed my /dev/hdc and my CDROM to cable select instead
of master/slave.  Linux now can only see whichever of
them is on the primary connector, the other is treated as
though it just isn't there.  On Windows, I still see the
CDROM but if I put a CD in it (yes I have autorun turned
off), there's that blue screen again.

So:  any steps I've missed before either getting a new
mother board, or trying an external USB CD-RW drive?

Vic


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