Can a misplaced IRQ burnout a DVD-ROM Drive?

[goshdarnindie]

I know, this is a bizaar question. Here is what we know.

I was installing WIN98se onto a machine. I was using a Creative PC-DVD 2X as the ATAPI drive to install Windows. No problem, Windows loads just as it had the other hundred times its been installed. However, as I add more hardware, the Creative IDE drive develops an IRQ conflict (at this point my drive does not work). Nothing new, I shuffle some stuff around, forcing the SCI IRQ from the mainboard (FIC-SD11) to go somewhere else. Still nothing. I shuffle IRQ's all night, remove drives, ethernet cards, I even managed to screw up my vid card (Voodoo3 3500) settings in the process.

I finally decide to test the drive. After testing it on my Linux machine, I find that it will not boot from the drive, even though that has been accomplished before. This is the question. Can shifting IRQ's to something that the hardware (DVD Drive) is not happy with cause a burn out within the hardware. I don't see how this is possible, but I would like some confiration before I put my other DVD drive in its place. Thankee kindly.

 

[goshdarnindie]

Well, can it?

 

[Pakman]

No, it cannot. It was probably just coincidence that it happened at the same time. I've once ran out of gas on the highway and was rolling to the exit and the person behind me also ran out of gas at the same time. We rolled into a Texaco and she got out and asked me if I ran out of gas also. Pretty freaky eh? But these things happen.

 

[bacillus]

I agree with Pakman here on it being just coincidence!

 

[goshdarnindie]

Thats what I figured, I just needed the confidence instilled by people I have never met saying its ok. Thanks for the replies 🙂