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26th October 2009, 01:46 AM
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Thanks for all your help. I guess I'm on the market for a new disk drive.
Bill
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26th October 2009, 01:50 AM
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I see Nokia is of line so I will attempt to answer you questions.
1. bad design
2. No, This could be caused by a couple things. It could be a cable or power supply problem or even a on board controller failure . I would try first connect a different power supply cable, if you don't have a free one remove the one from your cd rom. If that didn't work try the same thing with ata/sata/pata cable and post back the results.
Best of luck
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26th October 2009, 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Nokia
Erm...Dies, I think we're past clearing CMOS  |
Ha ha, yeah... I came back to it... probably should have deleted it once I noticed there were like way more post above me than I remembered.
Anyways, glad to see you guys got it past that.
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26th October 2009, 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by kyryder
I see Nokia is of line so I will attempt to answer you questions.
1. bad design
2. No, This could be caused by a couple things. It could be a cable or power supply problem or even a on board controller failure . I would try first connect a different power supply cable, if you don't have a free one remove the one from your cd rom. If that didn't work try the same thing with ata/sata/pata cable and post back the results.
Best of luck
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1. Nokia is always offline 
2. le'me guess: cable broke loose while installing an os ?
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26th October 2009, 02:01 AM
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"Just in case," I'll try the cable experiments...
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26th October 2009, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Nokia
2. le'me guess: cable broke loose while installing an os ? |
 I agree not likely, but why leave a stone unturned .
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26th October 2009, 02:20 AM
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I tried a different data cable and a different power cable on the disk drive. The result was the same old freeze. I moved that same data cable and power cable to the DVD drive with the XP CD in it, and it booted into the XP setup. Everything, of course, was done with the primary IDE on the motherboard.
Can we now conclude that the disk drive is definitely bad?
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26th October 2009, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by billquinn
Can we now conclude that the disk drive is definitely bad?
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Sure sounds like it.
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