DVD Rom name change query

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Netty

Hi

I have a Samsung DVD Rom which I have put into my new PC from my old one.
It's only about 3 years old and worked fine in my old PC. Vista found the
driver necessary and installed it. Worked fine.

Last night I tried to use Roxio to copy a cd which ended up with Roxio
crashing. I had to reboot. Once rebooted, Vista told me it was installing a
device driver for a Semwung DVD-ROM$SD-616E$ATA device. This has left me
scratching my head as to why my Samsung is now a Semwung! Any ideas?

Also, I have noticed over the last couple of days that someone/thing keeps
changing my homepage. I've run Spybot and my antivirus scanner and had 5
tracking cookies and have got rid of them. Is there any way I can find out
what keeps changing my homepage? Once whatever it is tries to change my
homepage and I try to use Explorer to surf the web, I get directed to a
Norton page telling me something's tried to change my homepage but won't
tell me what or what to.

I don't think my current problems are connected in any way - but could they
be?

Netty
 
Netty said:
Hi

I have a Samsung DVD Rom which I have put into my new PC from my old one.
It's only about 3 years old and worked fine in my old PC. Vista found the
driver necessary and installed it. Worked fine.

Last night I tried to use Roxio to copy a cd which ended up with Roxio
crashing. I had to reboot. Once rebooted, Vista told me it was installing
a device driver for a Semwung DVD-ROM$SD-616E$ATA device. This has left me
scratching my head as to why my Samsung is now a Semwung! Any ideas?

Also, I have noticed over the last couple of days that someone/thing keeps
changing my homepage. I've run Spybot and my antivirus scanner and had 5
tracking cookies and have got rid of them. Is there any way I can find out
what keeps changing my homepage? Once whatever it is tries to change my
homepage and I try to use Explorer to surf the web, I get directed to a
Norton page telling me something's tried to change my homepage but won't
tell me what or what to.

I don't think my current problems are connected in any way - but could
they be?
Click to expand...

No, I do not think they are related. The problem with your DVD burner is
very likely to be because your power supply unit is not powerful enough for
your system. OEM manufacturers put in just about the cheapest one that they
can for the system, so when you add more HDDs and optical drives, and PCI
cards, the PSU can be strained.

You'll find that it works fine back in the old PC, and will be fine if you
got a decent PSU with more power, like a Tagan, Zalman, Enermax, etc. in
your new computer. As a short-term solution, you can try removing some PCI
cards, or other optical drives and HDDs from your overloaded PC.

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
No, I do not think they are related. The problem with your DVD burner is
very likely to be because your power supply unit is not powerful enough
for your system. OEM manufacturers put in just about the cheapest one
that they can for the system, so when you add more HDDs and optical
drives, and PCI cards, the PSU can be strained.

You'll find that it works fine back in the old PC, and will be fine if you
got a decent PSU with more power, like a Tagan, Zalman, Enermax, etc. in
your new computer. As a short-term solution, you can try removing some
PCI cards, or other optical drives and HDDs from your overloaded PC.

ss.
Click to expand...

My PSU isn't overloaded - it's the same as what's in my old pc - just
branded differently. I thought of that before posting here.

Netty
 
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