I currently am running into some problems and i am truly clueless as to why this is happening.
About 3 days ago i just put together a computer. Here are the specs:
Intel P4 3.0Ghz with Intel D865GBF motherboard
512Mb DDR400 Hynix Ram
nVidia Geforce 4 MX 440 SE 64mb card
1 WD 40gb harddrive as master on primary IDE
1 Fujitsu 20gb as slave on primary IDE
1 HP DVD Writer 300i as master on secondary IDE
1 16X DVD ROM as slave on secondary IDE
Creative SB Live.
The problem occured today when i just turned on my computer. The boot up screen went thru its normal routine of i guess countin the ram or whatever?
then it stalls.............for like about 2minutes. Then later on, windows finally loads up. But during the part where windows is loading and u have that line scrolling along at the bottom, it takes another 3-4minutes.
I'm finally in windows, and i go to My Computer. I see that both of my DVD drives are not there. And they are not even detected. yet the slave DVD ROM drive has power feeding to it and i can open and close the tray. my DVD Burner master has no power being fed to it whatsoever.
Nonetheless, regardless of my slave DVD ROM having power, both are still undetected.
I restart, manage to get into BIOS and again, both dvd drives are not detected.
Its something i have never encountered before.
I turn off power complete, then disconnect the dvd rom so that i only have my dvd writer connected. It posts up fine, then loads windows normally and i go to My computer and see that my dvd writer is there. I then restart. Again, posting and xp loads fine. I then turn it off completely. disconnect the master dvd burner and hook up the slave dvd rom drive alone (i remembered to also switch hte jumper to master). I boot up and post and windows xp load fine.
I shut down the pc and swap again connecting hte dvd master and disconnecting the dvd rom since i need the writer more than the regular one. boot up works fine, then shut down then have dinner.
I come back 15min later or so, turn it on. and it stalls for a while during post up again. i try pressing the eject button on my dvd burner but no power is being fed to it.
I wait for it to stall, then wait for xp to stall then load, then see again the same problem with no drives detected. I'm fed up so i just shut it all down.........connect both drives again then it posts normally again.
This randomly happens all the time and i don't know whats wrong.
I even tried flashign the bios. When it was flashed, here's what happened. After the flash was successful, i'm waiting there. and things are stalled again. But at the bottom of the screen after the Ram was counted it said a really quick message........
something about "CheckSum.....Bad"........................and thats all i saw....................xp stalled again then loaded....
I shut off power completely. turn back on in like a minute and everything boots normally with both dvd drives working.
I'm pretty scared now to shut down, so i will just hibernate for now.
But can anyone please please help me figure out this problem? I also tried swapping IDE cables, and i still got the same problem before and after so i'm clueless now.
I don't mind this problem, but i don't want to keep going thru it forever.............Please help. THanks.
About 3 days ago i just put together a computer. Here are the specs:
Intel P4 3.0Ghz with Intel D865GBF motherboard
512Mb DDR400 Hynix Ram
nVidia Geforce 4 MX 440 SE 64mb card
1 WD 40gb harddrive as master on primary IDE
1 Fujitsu 20gb as slave on primary IDE
1 HP DVD Writer 300i as master on secondary IDE
1 16X DVD ROM as slave on secondary IDE
Creative SB Live.
The problem occured today when i just turned on my computer. The boot up screen went thru its normal routine of i guess countin the ram or whatever?
then it stalls.............for like about 2minutes. Then later on, windows finally loads up. But during the part where windows is loading and u have that line scrolling along at the bottom, it takes another 3-4minutes.
I'm finally in windows, and i go to My Computer. I see that both of my DVD drives are not there. And they are not even detected. yet the slave DVD ROM drive has power feeding to it and i can open and close the tray. my DVD Burner master has no power being fed to it whatsoever.
Nonetheless, regardless of my slave DVD ROM having power, both are still undetected.
I restart, manage to get into BIOS and again, both dvd drives are not detected.
Its something i have never encountered before.
I turn off power complete, then disconnect the dvd rom so that i only have my dvd writer connected. It posts up fine, then loads windows normally and i go to My computer and see that my dvd writer is there. I then restart. Again, posting and xp loads fine. I then turn it off completely. disconnect the master dvd burner and hook up the slave dvd rom drive alone (i remembered to also switch hte jumper to master). I boot up and post and windows xp load fine.
I shut down the pc and swap again connecting hte dvd master and disconnecting the dvd rom since i need the writer more than the regular one. boot up works fine, then shut down then have dinner.
I come back 15min later or so, turn it on. and it stalls for a while during post up again. i try pressing the eject button on my dvd burner but no power is being fed to it.
I wait for it to stall, then wait for xp to stall then load, then see again the same problem with no drives detected. I'm fed up so i just shut it all down.........connect both drives again then it posts normally again.
This randomly happens all the time and i don't know whats wrong.
I even tried flashign the bios. When it was flashed, here's what happened. After the flash was successful, i'm waiting there. and things are stalled again. But at the bottom of the screen after the Ram was counted it said a really quick message........
something about "CheckSum.....Bad"........................and thats all i saw....................xp stalled again then loaded....
I shut off power completely. turn back on in like a minute and everything boots normally with both dvd drives working.
I'm pretty scared now to shut down, so i will just hibernate for now.
But can anyone please please help me figure out this problem? I also tried swapping IDE cables, and i still got the same problem before and after so i'm clueless now.
I don't mind this problem, but i don't want to keep going thru it forever.............Please help. THanks.
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