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Old January 24th 04, 09:14 PM
chuck
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Default Blinking Yellow Light on HP CD-RW

I am trying to use, as a second CD drive, an older
HP CD-RW. I have it installed as a slave on the primary
IDE controller, and both BIOS and Win98SE find it just
fine. But when I load a CD, any CD, first the green light
on the drive blinks slowly while it seeks, but then the yellow
light starts blinking fast instead. Whasup? I can't find
any info on what a blinking yellow light means.

I'm guessing the drive is bad; the lazer is shot or something.
But might this be a driver problem??

tia

chuck

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Old January 25th 04, 01:08 AM
Jimmy
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I know of some driver issues with the HP burners.You had to download HP's
software to get them to work.
"chuck" wrote in message
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I am trying to use, as a second CD drive, an older
HP CD-RW. I have it installed as a slave on the primary
IDE controller, and both BIOS and Win98SE find it just
fine. But when I load a CD, any CD, first the green light
on the drive blinks slowly while it seeks, but then the yellow
light starts blinking fast instead. Whasup? I can't find
any info on what a blinking yellow light means.

I'm guessing the drive is bad; the lazer is shot or something.
But might this be a driver problem??

tia

chuck



 




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