Toyed around with the settings in BIOS and tried (reluctantly) an old full version Win98 CD and finally got the CD drive recognized. RedHat 9 is loading as I type ... hooray! Thanks! dmc On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 10:21, Price Technology wrote: > On Friday 11 July 2003 22:52, Colburn wrote: > > My PowerNotebooks PowerPro C 3:16 notebook arrived today. > > http://www.powernotebooks.com/specs/PowerPro/c3-16.php > > > > It is built for them by Quantas and the manual (such as it is) refers to > > the Z500 series (though it is very generic). > > > > Powered it up and inserted my RedHat9 CD. It did not autoboot nor was I > > able to see it in DOS -- seems nothing but the C drive is recognized. > > > > Looked in the BIOS (PhoenixBIOS Revision 3A21) and used SHIFT + to > > toggle a ! in front of the CD Drive, also tried making the CD Drive > > first in the boot sequence, neither made a difference. > > > > Their tech support is generally available M-F during business hours but > > I was counting on getting this thing running over the weekend. > > > > Any suggestions, please? > > > Wait til Monday, call support. (it's a warranty thing) > > Joebewan > >
