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yourmom420
04-28-2005, 11:32 PM
ok, my bro's xh555 i posted here http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?t=129016 , they sent it back sayin i didnt plug everything all the way in.....now i cant get it to recognize the dvd-rom drive, when i try to set it in bios to boot from cd, it skips it and goes right to loading xp, i want to reinstall xp, but cant cuz the drive 'isnt there' for some reason.....when i put a disk in, it spins up, but thats it....do i need a driver ???
the drive was formated and loaded with xp on my hp ze5185 laptop with my p4 processor and different dvd-rom drive, now in the hp xh555 with amd athlon 4, i didnt know if thats the issue, maybe?
glc
04-29-2005, 05:25 PM
You don't need a driver to boot from it. If it's skipping, either the drive or the CD is defective or something is not set up right in the bios - or the motherboard still has issues.
yourmom420
04-30-2005, 01:27 PM
the drive spins up like its gonna go, then nothing....when i go to my computer, it shows 'a:' & 'c:', not 'd:' ......didnt know if cuz i formatted the hdd in my laptop, its not showing up in that 1, but yea i agree with the mobo still bein a issue, im tryin to make the 6-3 1/2" disks to see if thatll let me boot from cd
yourmom420
04-30-2005, 04:51 PM
k, the boot disks didnt work.....said there was no cd drive(??) i want to try a new drive in it, but dont wanna take apart my laptop to try it, not sure if the plug-ins are the same(probably are) my bro dont wanna spend any more money on it to sell, says hes just gonna keep it, i still wanna fix it though
codered6651
05-01-2005, 02:57 PM
Take a look here http://www.billssite.com/step22.htm but your problem IMO sounds like a dead CD-rom drive. Do you have another CD drive that you could test in the HP XH555?
yourmom420
05-01-2005, 03:41 PM
nope, i dont got another drive to try.....dont feel like dismantling mine to try it....its not really a usability issue, cuz i got everything networked, can just pull whats needed to another computer, and grab it with the 'xh' , i was tryin to sell it for him though, but no1's gonna want it without a working burner though.......thanx guys for the feedback on it