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If you can audibly hear your laptop reading the XP disk in its CDROM but it does not respond and there is just a blank screen what do you do?
go to cmos and set cdrom to be first bootable disk. then click to start windows with cdrom support. ensure your cdrom is working ok. also ensure that your xp disk has autorun installed (some do not). Good Luck!!!!!!!!!!!
How would you find pin1 of an internal hard or floppy disk ribbon cable?
By the colored stripe on the cable it refers to the first pin.
Does an ATA100 hard disk have the same interface as a Serial ATA150 hard disk?
No. ATA100 uses an 80pin ribbon cable and the Serial-ATA uses a much smaller, red 7pin cable.
What does the acronym cdrom stand for?
Compact Disk Read Only Memory.
5.25 Floppy Disk Drive will not work on newer PC?
Open the case and see if the power AND the ribbon cable are both plugged in. If the drive's read light is staying on constantly the cable is connected backward. Also, make sure the floppy is properly set-up in the BIOS.
How does the Hard Drive connect to the mother board?
Hard Drives connect to the motherboard one of two ways. Either using a 40-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable, or an 80-wire/40-pin HDD ribbon cable. HDD stands for Hard Drive Disk.
Does a system disk have to be a floppy disk?
No. A "system disk" is simply any disk which the computer can boot from and has an operating system installed on it. In most modern computer systems, the hard disk is normally the system disk. However most systems can also boot from a floppy disk, a cdrom, or even a USB thumb drive, providing of course that the media in question has the necessary system files on it. Many older systems did not have the ability to boot from the cdrom drive or USB drives. On these systems the only options were booting from the hard disk or floppy disk, so if the OS hadnt been installed to the hard disk yet (or it was broken) the only other option was the floppy disk.
Diagnose a hard disk failure?
check hard disk power cable IDE cable check
What does CD-ROM stand for?
Compact disc - Read only memory
What are 3 types of ribbon cables you might find inside a PC?
-Sata Cable -IDE Cable -Molex/Sata power cable Other possible -SCSI Cable -Floppy cable -SLI/Crossfire Cable -12V 24 pin Motherboard connector -12v 4-pin CPU Connector -12v PCI-e Connector
Which disk drive standards uses an 80-conductor cable?
The drive interface that uses an 80-conductor ribbon cable is IDE. IDE stands for Integrated Drive Electronics, an interface commonly used to connect hard disks and optical drives to computers.
Which disk holds the most data DVD or CD-Rw or Floppy or CD-r or Cdrom and Hard drive is not a choice?
CD-Rw
