[Cialug] barebones system

Paul Gray gray at cs.uni.edu
Mon Nov 28 10:04:13 CST 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 09:46:09AM -0600, Kendall Bailey wrote:
> So
> basically, if a CD drive has power, but does not blink and won't eject
> the tray, is it certifiably DOA?  Time to call the vendor?

Yes.  A CD drive should be able to spin up, eject, and light the LED during the
pre-boot processes (even while the bios is detecting the unit).  It's DOA.

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