DVD Burner freezing machine

[sparrowdog]

I have a problem with my machine. It's been totally stable, then I moved
house and it went on the removalist truck. Since then, both the DVD & CD
burners that were in it kept freezing the machine.

I installed and ran the program 'Burn In Test' and every other component
tested fine with no faults. I bought a new DVD burner and the new one
freezes as well, just not as often as the old one.

Machine specs:
Asus P4PE motherboard, Pentium P4 2.4 chip 800FSB, 1 gig Ram, Radeon 9200SE
video card.

Do I have another dodgy drive or is it likely something else on my machine
is damaged? Occasionally my machine is sluggish even when the DVD burner
isn't being used which never happened before?

Thoughts?

Is there a better hardware diagnostic tool I can use than Burn In Test???

J

 

[John McGaw]

I have a problem with my machine. It's been totally stable, then I moved
house and it went on the removalist truck. Since then, both the DVD & CD
burners that were in it kept freezing the machine.

I installed and ran the program 'Burn In Test' and every other component
tested fine with no faults. I bought a new DVD burner and the new one
freezes as well, just not as often as the old one.

Machine specs:
Asus P4PE motherboard, Pentium P4 2.4 chip 800FSB, 1 gig Ram, Radeon 9200SE
video card.

Do I have another dodgy drive or is it likely something else on my machine
is damaged? Occasionally my machine is sluggish even when the DVD burner
isn't being used which never happened before?

Thoughts?

Is there a better hardware diagnostic tool I can use than Burn In Test???

J

Based on "Occasionally my machine is sluggish even when the DVD burner isn't
being used which never happened before?" it seems at least feasible that
your machine is infected with some malware which is stealing enough CPU
power to botch the burning process. Do you have an OS (like XP or W2K) which
allows real-time monitoring of computer resources? Just watching where the
CPU cycles are going can tell one a lot about problems. Of course doing a
proper scan for worms and other malware is always in order.

 

[CBFalconer]

I have a problem with my machine. It's been totally stable, then I
moved house and it went on the removalist truck. Since then, both
the DVD & CD burners that were in it kept freezing the machine.

My guess is that a cable came loose. The CD and DVD drives are
likely on the same channel, so only one cable need be loose.

 

[sparrowdog]

My guess is that a cable came loose. The CD and DVD drives are
likely on the same channel, so only one cable need be loose.

Well, I checked the cables at the DVD burner end, but didn't think to check
it where it connects to the motherboard. Doh! Thanks for acting as the
logical part of my brain this morning

Will also download and run Ad Aware on my machine, but I doubt it's that as
the c: has been reformatted several times through this saga. I'm running XP
Pro.

Joanne