I think Freespire blinded me

New Shoes · 09-25-2007, 06:30 PM

After using Freespire livecd on two conputers, I lost the use of my cd-roms on both. They see a disk with data as "no data" and a blank disk as "no disk". Both cd-roms work in a third computer that hasn't seen Freespire. One machine had Windows xp on it and the other had no os installed. I'm assuming it did something to my bios but I have no idea what.

AceofSpades19 · 09-25-2007, 07:01 PM

Have you checked the disk for scratches?, a freespire cd wouldn't do anything to the BIOS

phantom_cyph · 09-25-2007, 07:27 PM

I don't like Freespire at all. My boss's computer loads it fine with an older computer than mine, and 512gb of RAM, but mine doesn't and its 6 months old with a gig of RAM and a 3.33GHz processor. Its picky.

New Shoes · 09-25-2007, 08:49 PM

I don't think the disk was scratched, Freespire was seen fine and worked fine. It was after I removed it that my problems began. I swapped the failed cd drives into a third computer and they both worked, but neither would work in either of the other two.

oskar · 09-26-2007, 03:21 AM

There is absolutely no way that a install cd could do that. It might be the cable, it might be the jumper settings or the power supply. Maybe even the mother board.