I guess I'm used to forums that move a bit faster, I do apologize, I'm just very eager to get this setup working. I'm using it for live performances with my band and I'm by no means and electronics or computer whiz, just a musician who's interest is sparked by things operating at the brink of what they've been designed to do.

I've had the disk drive out, cleaned it, lubricated it, and it seems to know when there is a disk in the drive because it spits it out upon start up, unless that task is something that the computer tries to do every single time it starts up unless there is a bootable disk in there which I didn't think was true because if it were, I would hear the drive try to start spinning.

And sophomoric aphorisms are the best kind.