System won't boot

[Electric Amish]

System has been sweet for several months. Sunday I couldn't see my CDRW any more so I rebooted and now the system stalls at "Detecting IDE Drives..."

Can't enter BIOS.

Reset CMOS with no effect.

Can't boot to floppy.

Anybody have any ideas? I've exhausted mine...

Epox EP-8RDA (4/02/03 BIOS)
Athlon XP 2500+
Crucial PC2100 DDR (3x256mb)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Lite-on 16x CDRW
WD 40gb HD
Maxtor 20gb HD
Turtle Beach SC
3COM NIC
Sparkle 300w PS
Windows 2000

TIA

amish

 

[minendo]

Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

 

[T3C]

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

That should solve the problem. If not, do you have another drive you could plug into the machine and see what happens?

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: cybpnk

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

That should solve the problem. If not, do you have another drive you could plug into the machine and see what happens?

Hmm.... Didn't try that. I tried removing the IDE cable from the HD's, but no the CDRW. I'll try that when I get home today.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

Does that mean that the CDRW drive might be bad?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

Does that mean that the CDRW drive might be bad?

Yes. I had a Phillips 8x burner die on me and could not figure out why the system would not boot. Sure enough I unplugged it from the ide cable and everything was back to normal.

 

[whitesock]

Yes. I had a Phillips 8x burner die on me and could not figure out why the system would not boot. Sure enough I unplugged it from the ide cable and everything was back to normal.

Really? I'm having the same issue and both of my cd/dvd drives aren't recieving any power. I know my zip and hard drives are recieving power so I tested the all the power cables with the zip and all they work so I know it isn't the psu. So basically both my cd and dvd are fried adn that's probably the reason my computer isn't posting?

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: whitesock

Yes. I had a Phillips 8x burner die on me and could not figure out why the system would not boot. Sure enough I unplugged it from the ide cable and everything was back to normal.

Really? I'm having the same issue and both of my cd/dvd drives aren't recieving any power. I know my zip and hard drives are recieving power so I tested the all the power cables with the zip and all they work so I know it isn't the psu. So basically both my cd and dvd are fried adn that's probably the reason my computer isn't posting?

Not necessarily. It could be one of the devices is screwed. Try a new ide cable. If that does not help, try plugging in only cd drive into the cable to see if at least one of them works.

 

[whitesock]

I'll make sure I try that, thanks.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

Does that mean that the CDRW drive might be bad?

Yes. I had a Phillips 8x burner die on me and could not figure out why the system would not boot. Sure enough I unplugged it from the ide cable and everything was back to normal.

Cool! I hope it's that easy. 🙂

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: minendo
Did you try booting it with the IDE cable removed from the cdrw?

Does that mean that the CDRW drive might be bad?

Yes. I had a Phillips 8x burner die on me and could not figure out why the system would not boot. Sure enough I unplugged it from the ide cable and everything was back to normal.

Cool! I hope it's that easy. 🙂

That was it. Disconnected it and it booted up normally! 😀

Too bad about my CDRW... it didn't see much use at all. I wonder why it died so suddenly...?

amish

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Too bad about my CDRW... it didn't see much use at all. I wonder why it died so suddenly...?

Maybe it needs to be cleaned? On another note, my Yamaha 16x scsi cdrw reads cds fine, but does not burn them. This drive has burned no more than 15 cds in the 2+ years I've had it.🙁