Hello all,

I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
problems.

Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
open and shut them.

So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
crashed, something that had never happened before.

So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
could the problem be?

Help most appreciated!

Kind Regards!

Gaffer wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
> supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
> problems.
>
> Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
> didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
> the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
> open and shut them.
>
> So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
> wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
> crashed, something that had never happened before.
>
> So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
> I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
> could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
> could the problem be?
>
> Help most appreciated!

If the only problem you're having is detecting CDs, then I would suggest
reinstalling Windows ... it sounds like it's crapped out to me.


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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 16:33:49 +0100, "Gaffer"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
>supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
>problems.
>
>Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
>didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
>the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
>open and shut them.

What's your level of confidence that you'd tried the drives after
installing the video card and new power supply, that they worked at
that point, and later stopped working without any further operating
system changes or work inside the case?

If nothing more was done or changed, then I have to wonder, what power
supply is it? Further down in this post you mention replacing the
power supply again, but was the replacement the same make/model? If
the first relacement was junk, and the second one is the same junk,
well....


>So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
>wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
>crashed, something that had never happened before.

Have you checked the voltages, in the bios, a windows utility, and
with a voltage meter if you have one available?

I'd try removing, unplugging both CD-ROM drives, using the system for
a period, to see if it's otherwise working 100% stable, including
during stress-testing. You might also try moving the hard drive to
that controller, see if it still works. Of course depending on the
bios' abilities you might then need specify it as the boot drive
again.

>
>So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
>I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
>could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
>could the problem be?

IDE cable?


Dave