Re: jfws and bit levels continued
- From: "Yadiel Sotomayor" <yadosotomayor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:38:48 -0400
?A crystal?... On the CD ROM?... Well... either you miss understood ( and I
really doubt it) or the person you talked to didn't knew nothing about what he
was talking about. The OS is stored on the hardrive. The ROM (read only memory)
is stored on a chip on the moderboard. That chip is called a bios (basic imput
and output system) and it is used to launch the OS from the hardrive. Now, the
actual CD rom has a lence on it. It is used to read the content of a disc. It
is sort of like a camera. But... how, can a falty CD drive prevent an OS from
loading or make it crash?... I can understand a falty hardrive. Those are very
sensitive things. The mere drop can damage a hardrive and make it crash, lose
information or both.
yadiel
From: Dorothy Ingram-Gorban
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 7:00 PM
To: org, jfw@freelists.
Subject: jfws and bit levels continued
dear list reading my earlier Post I forgot to mention I was not just using
Skype to make the contact but the tandem feature of Jaws was being used and
when the computer crashed it was not under my control, that is different to my
old XP failing last October when downloading Jaws 11, the machine was under
my control and it was a 5 year old desktop the engineer I called in last said
to contact dell,he said something I did not understand, his English is not
always clear. he said the CD-ROM is faulty and I questioned him, he said the
C.D. ROM has a lens in it,I asked "what does it do is it like a camera? he said
"lens has a crystal in it and the crystal is needed to run the operating system
properly, I have not heard of crystals in CD roms I thought they just stored
material hope it is a bit clearer Dorothy
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