Blue Screen when Accessing CD-ROM

[TimboAA]

Everytime I try to access my 2nd CD-ROM drive XP Pro will lock up and do a physical memory dump. I can put a cd in and it will display the title of it in My Computer, but if it tries to access it any further I get the blue screen.

I've checked and double checked my connections and everything seems fine. I've rotated RAM around and have removed RAM (just one stick that i thought might be suspicious)

Specs:

Freshly installed XP Home w/ XP Pro Upgrade Service Pack 1
DFI Lanparty UT 250gb
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Sony DVD-RW
Samsung CD-RW <--- The problem child
GeForce4 4200Ti 128mb
Western Digital 80gb
Seagate 120gb SATA

512mb of BestBuy RAM (2 sticks) Unknown brand at the moment
256mb unknown


Thanks in advance.

 

[imported_Phil]

To put it bluntly, if it's a Samsung then that's usually the problem right there.
I have a Samsung DVD reader and it's crap- I think it's about to die. Everything Samsung I've ever had has been shite.

Get yourself a new one

 

[TimboAA]

:-(

I'll see if I have any spare cd-roms lying around

 

[stevty2889]

Any particular reason you need a dvd-rw and a cd-rw, when the dvd-rw can do the same thing?

 

[TimboAA]

Well, it's nice having 2 cd-roms. the cd-rw was also a dvd-rom so it was nice when it came around to backing up my DVDs.

 

[TimboAA]

Apparently it's a power problem... I know its not heat related though.

And i'm not overclocked.

 

[TimboAA]

I've got a PC3200 and two PC2700 sticks by SpecTek

 

[LTC8K6]

Try dropping it into PIO mode if you can. If Windows hasn't already done it for you.

 

[TimboAA]

I think I need a faster memory module.. It recommends DDR 333 &amp; DDR 400

I'm using PC3200 and 2 stick of PC2700 (same thing)

Which is what i'm using...hrmm...