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  1. April 8th, 2002, 09:42 PM #1
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    My friend has a Dell Optiplex GM 5100 (old computer) and I tried to get the CDROM to work, but when the PC boots it can't find any drivers or something like that and in the BIOS it is detected as a "Something Packet device" or something like that...

    Why doesn't a CDROM on this PC work? I'm about to get a new motherboard for him on ebay to fix and upgrade it at the same time.

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    If you use a bootable disk with CD-ROM support, is it working under DOS-prompt?
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    <a href="http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/dta/stingm/00000037.htm" target="_blank">Here is the bios setup for the GM </a> You can access the other documentation from there too.

    If you could be more specific about the error messages, we can help further.
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