windows xp ugrade problems

[acceptwhatever]

I recently built a computer because my Compaq presario 5102us processor
fan stopped and fried my processor. So i got a new case and installed
an ASUS K8N motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ box cpu and fan. I
also installed windows xp home edition ( because my compaq was running
ME} and installed a new seagate internal 160GB hard drive. I then took
my compaq 40GB HD and the CD and CD\RW drives from the old computer and
insta them in new case.
One CD crive worked long enough to install XP and video card driver
cds.
Now after all this no cd drives read a cd (music or data) though they
look like they are trying to and they are being picked up in bios. i've
tried to switch master and slave to cable select, i've tried pulling
power on one,i've uninstalled the driver in device manager and rebooted
to let windows find another(witch it does) to now avail

Someone please help me

 

[Rod Speed]

I recently built a computer because my Compaq presario 5102us processor
fan stopped and fried my processor. So i got a new case and installed
an ASUS K8N motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ box cpu and fan. I
also installed windows xp home edition ( because my compaq was running
ME} and installed a new seagate internal 160GB hard drive. I then took
my compaq 40GB HD and the CD and CD\RW drives from the old computer and
insta them in new case.
One CD crive worked long enough to install XP and video card driver
cds.
Now after all this no cd drives read a cd (music or data) though they
look like they are trying to and they are being picked up in bios. i've
tried to switch master and slave to cable select, i've tried pulling
power on one,i've uninstalled the driver in device manager and rebooted
to let windows find another(witch it does) to now avail

Try a new ribbon cable, you may have wrecked that one
pulling it off the drives by yanking on the ribbon itself.

 

[acceptwhatever]

i switched cables with the cable that worked with the hard drives still
doesnt help with th cd roms.and I also switched boot drives to my old
drive and then my cd drives worked but not when i boot from the new
drive with xp

 

[Rod Speed]

Rod Speed (e-mail address removed) wrote

i switched cables with the cable that worked with the hard drives still
doesnt help with th cd roms.and I also switched boot drives to my old
drive and then my cd drives worked but not when i boot from the new
drive with xp

Weird. Thats pretty convincing evidence that
its the XP install thats gone flakey after the install.

You sure you havent managed to get it virus infected ?

Try running one of the online virus checkers like the one on the Symantec site.

Run adaware and spybot too.

 

[acceptwhatever]

i have run norton and registry mechanic and adaware and spybot search
and destroy to no avail

 

[Rod Speed]

i have run norton and registry mechanic and adaware
and spybot search and destroy to no avail

OK, presumably its a hardware problem, a warmup fault specifically.

Try testing that possibility by seeing how it behaves
when left to cool down overnight turned off.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I recently built a computer because my Compaq presario 5102us processor
fan stopped and fried my processor. So i got a new case and installed
an ASUS K8N motherboard with a AMD Athlon 64 3000+ box cpu and fan. I
also installed windows xp home edition ( because my compaq was running
ME} and installed a new seagate internal 160GB hard drive. I then took
my compaq 40GB HD and the CD and CD\RW drives from the old computer and
insta them in new case.
One CD crive worked long enough to install XP and video card driver
cds.
Now after all this no cd drives read a cd (music or data) though they
look like they are trying to and they are being picked up in bios. i've
tried to switch master and slave to cable select, i've tried pulling
power on one,i've uninstalled the driver in device manager and rebooted
to let windows find another(witch it does) to now avail

Someone please help me

Sounds like defect hardware to me. The drives both trying and failing
to read could be a defect PSU that has unstable voltages. The mainboard
regulators would compensate for that, the HDD might not be that
sensitive to the problem. Or given that this system draws a lot
of power, it could be a PSU with several separate 12V rails and
only the one with the CD drives is bad.

Arno

 

[Rod Speed]

Sounds like defect hardware to me. The drives both trying and failing
to read could be a defect PSU that has unstable voltages. The mainboard
regulators would compensate for that, the HDD might not be that
sensitive to the problem. Or given that this system draws a lot
of power, it could be a PSU with several separate 12V rails and
only the one with the CD drives is bad.

There's hardly ever separate 12V rails.