HELP!! My Burner Killed My Computer!!!!!!!!

[KrazyKev]

While I was burning a CD (actually it was in the process of copying to hard drive from cd) the computer screen went black and that was all she wrote. Now I cant even post. The hard drive and cd-rom light (both on primary ide) stay on all the time when powered up. I did get a couple blue screens of death before doing this, I dont rememmber exactly what it said, something with vxd and vcache. I have an athlon t-bird 800 on a Soyo K7VTA-B, Teac CDW 512EB burner, Win 98se. My motherboard has voice doctor and it is saying something when it powers up, but you cant understand the damn thing. Some possible things wrong according to manual are: bad ide controller (my guess), bad processor, loose video card. I tried shorting the CMOS and removeing battery, still wont post. I disconnected everything unnecessary, still didnt work, monitor stays black, and you get the voice doctor warning, no beeps.
Did the motherboard die or the IDE controller, bad video card? Is that possible? Please help I need my computer working!!! Should I return the motherboard, I built this system a month ago. What coud it be?
Thanks so much in advance.

 

[Scott Newton]

Have you tried safe mode? If so, did you get errors?

 

[Pederv]

When you say everything unnessecary, is that including the cd-burner and the hard drive (boot from floppy)?

 

[nicowju]

I've had a problem similar to this (well, when I turned it on, the thing wouldn't come on... everything powered up, but the display remained black, and the LEDs stayed on. The problem was a bunch of loose things.