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Posted: **Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:11 pm**

I have a Thinkpad 570 that I bought on eBay and an Ultrabase that I bought on Craigslist.
The CD drive is from my Thinkpad 600E, and it is recognized at boot by the 600E because I can put a Windows install CD in and the install will start.

But at boot, the Thinkpad 570 does not see the CD. Afterwards it is detected, and I can play music CDs.

The connectors for the Ultrabase-TP570 connection looks okay with no broken pins.

Has anyone else run across this?

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:14 am**

Have you checked to make sure that the 570E has the BIOS set to boot up from CD?

Posted: **Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:03 am**

Yes, the 570 (not 570E) BIOS is set to boot up first from CD-ROM, then floppy drive, then hard drive, then network.

At boot up, I do see and hear CD-ROM activity and then I can hear floppy drive activity and then Windows boot. It is also the latest BIOS.

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