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Ok this is the scenario..sorry for the long post.
First my comp has been intermittently freezing up lately which it hasnt done in years. My son pointed out to me the other day that our CD drives were not being recognized. We have a regular 48x cd as the main and a burner hooked up as a slave. Now what I did was disconnect the plain CD-rom and hooked up only the burner and then rebooted. Well the burner was then recognized and performed as normal. I then shut down and returned to the original config with the plain drive as main and the burner as slave and rebooted. Well everything worked fine and I copied a couple of CDs (this is how I discovered my son was right) . Well I left the comp on and went out to the store. I returned to find that the comp was frozen again. So I rebooted and my CD-Roms were again not recognized. So I shut it down again and hooked up the Burner as the main and the Plain drive as the slave and rebooted. Again the CD-Roms were not recognized. Shut down again and rebooted with the Burner only hooked up and it was recognized. Thats the current config as I write this post.
So my questions are: Is my plain CD-Rom gone? If so why did it work once before while swapping contacts.
Is my mother board on the way out and thus resulting in the recent rash of freezing that I'm experiencing and CD-rom trouble. Its an Asus board and my comp is a P3 @ 600mhz and not overclocked with 640 meg of Sd ram at 133 bus speed if I recall. I'm not a comp Geek but I have always replaced my own upgrades or installed new hardware.
So .....Whats the diagnosis?
First my comp has been intermittently freezing up lately which it hasnt done in years. My son pointed out to me the other day that our CD drives were not being recognized. We have a regular 48x cd as the main and a burner hooked up as a slave. Now what I did was disconnect the plain CD-rom and hooked up only the burner and then rebooted. Well the burner was then recognized and performed as normal. I then shut down and returned to the original config with the plain drive as main and the burner as slave and rebooted. Well everything worked fine and I copied a couple of CDs (this is how I discovered my son was right) . Well I left the comp on and went out to the store. I returned to find that the comp was frozen again. So I rebooted and my CD-Roms were again not recognized. So I shut it down again and hooked up the Burner as the main and the Plain drive as the slave and rebooted. Again the CD-Roms were not recognized. Shut down again and rebooted with the Burner only hooked up and it was recognized. Thats the current config as I write this post.
So my questions are: Is my plain CD-Rom gone? If so why did it work once before while swapping contacts.
Is my mother board on the way out and thus resulting in the recent rash of freezing that I'm experiencing and CD-rom trouble. Its an Asus board and my comp is a P3 @ 600mhz and not overclocked with 640 meg of Sd ram at 133 bus speed if I recall. I'm not a comp Geek but I have always replaced my own upgrades or installed new hardware.
So .....Whats the diagnosis?