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| Thread ID: 58174 | 2005-05-23 14:40:00 | DVD conflict in XP | badgerman (8194) | Press F1 |
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| 357838 | 2005-05-23 14:40:00 | Hello, I've just built my first computer and everything is going fine apart from my DVD drive is causing me a lot of hassle. My system is sempron 2800 ASrock upgrade 1689 MOBO 512 DDR 400 Elixir Ram Seagate HDD Sony CRX 140E (i think) CD RW Hitachi Gd 5000 DVD Rom (The problem) THE PROBLEM : When booting up normally windows xp (professional SP1) it gets to the splash screen and then goes black and the computer hangs - can't use ctrl alt del, keyboard won't change caps lock etc... have to use reset. HOWEVER : The DVD does work under xp SP1 - i had an old P3 500 with the same hard drive and CD RW above and that all ran fine. I actually used the DVD rom to install XP onto this machine. The BIOS does recognise it. I can boot up into safe mode fine without any problems and windows does recognise the drive correctly. I have tried flashing the drive with the latest firmware. I have tried the drive on every IDE position with jumpers set as master slave and cable select. Any ideas as to why it won't load up in xp normally |
badgerman (8194) | ||
| 357839 | 2005-05-23 19:34:00 | Welcome to PressF1 badgerman Why are you suspecting your DVD drive? Does it boot into normal Windows OK if that drive is removed? Have you tried booting using the troubleshooting Step by Step Confirmation option and see if you can identify what component it is hanging on? Make sure you remove any peripheral devices (especially USB ones) as well. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 357840 | 2005-05-24 01:43:00 | do a dual boot xp & win me then see if win me runs properly | gum digger (6100) | ||
| 357841 | 2005-05-24 02:37:00 | Gum Digger, Can I ask where WinME came in to the equation? | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 357842 | 2005-05-25 00:56:00 | Further to Jens comment is the Secondary IDE cable new or preused? Is it possible that the Secondary IDE cable slave connection has dust or corrosion or some other fault? Appreciate you can run in Safe Mode. From the info supplied presume with Seagate HDD in Primary IDE Master and CD RW in Secondary IDE Master only, unit runs OK If the DVD is set to Master and all connections swopped from the CD RW to the DVD does the DVD run OK? it should as the DVD runs OK on your other computer If the CD RW is then set to slave using the Secondary IDE slave connection does it run? If not, suggest replace Secondary IDE cable with a new 80 wire cable. Only other suggestion is download and instal Everest Home Edition v2 2.77MB and see if that gives any clues. |
FrankS (257) | ||
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