CD-ROM Fault

This tutorial was sent in to me by Norman W. King of Cornwall

He wrote:- I have just cured a problem that suddenly appeared on my set-up. This is a A1200 which I have "towered" into a cheapo PC full tower and ditto key-board, the two items cost £37.61 brand new and that is cheapo! PPC604/40/25 with 40Mb RAM. PowerFlyer IDE interface. SilverSurfer fast serial port to a Dynalink V1433 modem. X4 CD-ROM and a 14" VGA monitor. Suddenly there was no response from the CD-ROM. It was showing when booting with the left mouse button held. It showed OK by looking for it in devices etc. etc., but no sign of it on the screen. I had the connecting cable out CD-ROM to PowerFlyer and squeezed the connectors tightly in a small hand vice and it worked for a short time on re-installation and then went dead again. Eventually I tried by replacing the connectors, still no good. Then I had a brain-storm in my frustration and reversed the cable and now everything works perfectly. It doesn`t make sense, does it? I have no idea what has caused the fault in the first place and even less to just what has cured it, but thought that as a suggestion it may help someone else who has reached the hair tearing stage. Cheers for now Norman W. King.
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