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Old 17-Jun-2009, 20:58
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PC help please?

Hi guys,

I know there are lots of PC experts in the club so would appreciate some advice!

The eldest lads PC (XP home) will no longer show a DVD/CD drive. The drives show up fine in BIOS but do not appear when booted up. The PC will also not boot up on the CD/DVD when a bootable CD is inserted (BIOS set to CD boot first). I've done the following;

1. Substituted a known working drive - no difference
2. Substituted another IDE lead - no difference
3. Swapped the power lead and confimed 12V and 5V feed - no difference
4. Rolled the PC back to an earlier restore point - no difference

Based on the above, I am assuming its a hardware fault somewhere on the motherboard but I really don't want to have to completely rebuild the PC unless my conclusion is correct (especially as the blasted thing only came with a backup disk image and not install disks). Any thing else I can check?

Thanks,

Keith
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