Hi, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Until the unfortunate error 'out of range, which started this threadk, the > CD/DVD drive had been working.
... digging in the archives ... Can it be the thread began as "Out of Range Monitor Problim" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg01115.html and then changed its title ? Whatever, the machine seems to boot into some MS operating system and then concludes that there are no CD-ROM drives. Even a DVD or BD capable drive would be valid as "CD-ROM" drive. But it's an IDE driver and the description of your system in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg01120.html "[...] ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603 [...]" looks like a SATA-only mainboard. So the missing drive might just be a consequence of a missing IDE controller. The big riddle is from where the MSCDEX program was started. > What would ce the effect of updating the BIOS? A friend of mine recently bricked his laptop by updating. He was lucky that the manufacturer took responsibility and repaired it for free. But the machine was away for more than a week. Before risking such an operation with an eight year old system, i'd try to verify whether the DVD drive is still usable. E.g. by putting it into a different computer and checking whether it can read the DVD. Have a nice day :) Thomas
