Hi
and WOW!
You did a major system reconfig and obviously you won her respect ;-)
The flat screen display problem reminded me of a problem I had years ago -
my printer didn't wanted to work because of a "buggy" RAM installed in the
PC ;-)
If you want your CD/DVD devices to work at maximum efficiency, occasionally
check their PIO / DMA modes in Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI controlers ->
Properties of corresponding IDE Channel -> Advansed settings
(for XP operating system)
If you see anything different from Ultra DMA mode 2 (DMA 1 or even worse
PIO) your CD/DVDs are not working at maximum speed
The only known to me cure is uninstal of the IDE Channel and restart
I have wasted a dozen CD-R disks until I found this article from Micro
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817472
Regards
| Hi Emil,
|
| Thanks again for the reply. What I did was switch the DVD and CD-RW on
the IDE bus,
| and switched which one was master and slave as well. This didn't seem to
make a
| difference. Finally, I went into the BIOS setup and set the PIO of the
CD-RW to 1, from 4.
| This enabled it to boot without hanging on the copyright screen.
| This caused another problem, my flat screen display went blank after the
copyright display,(!)
| and I had to power up and down the screen to get the display back. To fix
this, I went
| back into BIOS setup and disabled the CD drives for bootup, leaving only
the HDD.
| So both problems are resolved, I think.
|
| Thanks again and take care ( be careful about the comparisons between
women and computers!)
|
| Danimal