Help....Very Urgent

[Valhalla2000]

I'm trying to connect a CD-ROM and a CD-R to my Secondary IDE.

But when i connect it, the computer will Not Boot and shows that CPU is damaged(through LED).

What should i do?

 

[eyor]

Well, did you do anything to the CPU? undo whatever you just did(plug in cdr?) and try booting. Try unplugging anything extra and booting. also, what do you mean that it showed it was damaged? in what way?

 

[Valhalla2000]

If i boot without secondary IDE, then there's no problem, but if i boot with secondary IDE, then my computer won't even boot.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

does it POST?(power on self test) If not then you are draining too much power from your psu.

 

[Gatsby]

Also..

try checking teh jumpers on the back of teh drives. A conflict between the master slaver option might be doing that,

Gatsby

 

[subman]

Do you think adding an extra CD drive may be overloading the power supply ?

 

[pillage2001]

How many devices you have on your PC? I don't think it'll be much of a problem if your PSU is above 200watts

 

[AC]

Yeah, sounds like a master/slave problem. However, I've read somewhere that some cd-roms/cd-rws don't like to be on the same channel. In that case, there's no fix for it. Just like PCI cards that don't like to share IRQs.

 

[dkozloski]

If you plug the ribbon cable in backwards with IDE devices a lot of bad things happen.

 

[Valhalla2000]

Actually i didn't change anything in my system at all (except i changed a new fan). I just unplug the serial cable and plug in again. But the system won't boot with secondary IDE attached. (Still doesn't.....)

 

[GaryTcs]

My HP burner wanted to be master, and on the last IDE plug, or else bad things happen. But it would post.......

 

[Xaryht]

Put the Writer on Master both in jumper and cable. If the drives are connected properly with the jumpers and everyting, your secondary IDE controler may be busted.

 

[nateholtrop]

I have my cd/cd-rw plugged into the same ribbon and they work flawlessly but the 36X cd-rom is showing age and not reading well anymore but other than that my plexxy and the no name cd reader work fine..

Nate

 

[NesuD]

a friend of mine used to be a tech at the gateway stores and they had a problem with a bad batch of cdroms they got new cdroms to replace the bad drives with as they failed the only problem was that they had to disable the ide channel the new drive was on to get it to work. said it was the screwiest thing he'd ever seen the ide channel on no boot. turn it off and it booted and the cdrom on it worked normally. don't know if that will help but it can't hurt to try the problem was apparently with the replacement cdroms.

 

[Valhalla2000]

Thx guys. I solved the problem by installing drives individually. (However if i put together it still won't work )