i replaced a faulty dvd-rom with a dvd burner(giving me 2 dvd burners) and now my pc shuts off when i put a blank dvd in the new drive. my temp never goes above 40c and i have a 450 watt ps. my pc is an amd 64 3500 cpu with the x2 copper hs/fan, a biostar nforce 4 ultra mb, 1 gig 3200 ddr ram, twin 250 gig samsung hd's, twin samsung dvd burners, nvidia pci-e 256 meg 7300 gs vid-card running xp-pro. any insight would be greatly appreciated, my husband is going crazy...
If both drives are on the same ide cable,make sure than one is set to master and the another one to slave,by placing the jumper correctly at the back of the drives. Vincent.
hey thanks alot, No it's not a dell(lol) my husband builds computers and my tower is a xion and he order the parts that he wanted.. i love this computer it's supper fast....we just can't find out why it shuts off when we use this new drive... thanks alot
try the new burner by itself to see if still does it or not. are both hd's on 1 cable & the 2 burners on another cable?
Check master/slave on back of dvd burners and also new cable if same one on both drives and like what was said try each individually to see if both are alright. Then when you get all that right delete the ide drivers concerned and reboot letting it find them itself. Trying to help. Good luck
thanks i will try all of these things to see they will help, yes my HDS are on the same cable and the drives are on the same also.. i will let you all know if it works ,,thanks alot
nope it's still does it, it burn a movie but when i put the movie that it just burned back in,it shuts off...
Did you try your new burner on a cable by itself burning and trying to read it to see if the new drive is indeed at fault?
i hooked the burner up via a usb adapter kit and it worked flawlessly, it only shuts off when installed in the computer as m,s, or cable select via ide cable. im at a loss...this is dvdchick's hubby by the way......lol
swap the ide ribbons around where they go into the motherboard that ought to eliminate that question very interesting prob lol is it a heavy 450 psu or a light one ? does it do the same if it is the only dvd drive connected have you looked for a firmware update ?
forgot start right click my computer, manage, event viewer,double click system see if it tells you in there why it shut down
hey thanks for all the replys, we have know clue what is going on, now the computer will not turn on at all and when it does we can't get windows to come up it justs keep on restarting..we think that that new drive had problems , now are HD is loop,, so..... thanks ....