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Crimmy
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 12:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm a computer novice and recently just installed a new dvd writer reader, but when I tried to boot again after installing I got a completely blank screen with a repeatedly blinking black line at the top left corner. After fiddling around for long enough I figured out that disconnecting my external hard drive caused it to instead give me a disk boot error message asking me to insert system disc and press enter. I tried reverting back to the old disk drive but that doesn't work either.

Help me!!!!
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Crimmy
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 13:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have set the hard drive to master and the dvd drive to slave but it still doesn't change anything.
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ddp
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 13:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
moved to correct forum as not a dvd drive issue. does the hard drive show up in the bios?
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Crimmy
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 17:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes as does the dvd drive...
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sammorris
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 17:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Check that your internal hard drive is the highest priority boot device in the BIOS (usually Advanced CMOS Settings)
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Crimmy
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 18:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I did, and it is...

A new wrinkle has shown up... my dvd rom and hard drive don't reliably show up in bios... sometimes they're there sometimes it's gibberish, sometimes it's nothing....
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sammorris
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 18:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds like something is faulty. Try unplugging the new DVD drive first, and then try a different cable.
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ddp
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_ 		12. April 2008 @ 21:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
are both drives if ide on the same data cable? if both on same data cable, are they jumpered the same as master, slave or cable select?
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