[Cialug] OT: HP Pavillion DV1000 optical drive

[David Champion]

Thanks for the offer...

I tried a server optical drive that had the same socket as the HP... 
when I put it in and started up, the screen flickered a lot, and it 
still didn't boot from CD, the bios was set to boot from CD first.

I think this machine has other issues, going to run a memtest on it.

-dc

Paul Gray wrote:
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>> David Champion wrote:
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>>> Does anyone have a HP Pavillion DV1000 (or similar) optical drive they'd 
>>> let me borrow? My brother (the other one that's not on this list) has a 
>>> laptop that I need to do an OS restore CD on, but the optical drive isn't 
>>> working.
>>>
>>> If someone were able to bring it to the LUG meeting, I may be able to do 
>>> the install during the meeting... or if I could borrow the drive I'd 
>>> return it ASAP. The optical drive comes out very easily, you 
>>> just have to remove one screw and it slides out.
>>>       
>> If you need a replacement drive for a more permanent solution, I have a 
>> large stack of slim DVD drives from "why would I need this in a server" 
>> situations.
>>
>> I think that they're all CD write capable, but don't know if they're 
>> DVD-write capable.
>>
>>     
>
> Yes, I intended that to be off list... BUT:
>
> While shipping would kill me to offer these to everyone, this offer does
> extend to anyone in Cedar Falls while there are drives on the top of the
> stack to pop off.  These optical drives were pulled from the defunct
> servers that Intel donated to me last year through the Supercomputing
> Education program.  (The same goes for anyone wanting long SATA cables.)
>
> - -PG
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