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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