What could be wrong?

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Hello all,

I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
problems.

Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
open and shut them.

So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
crashed, something that had never happened before.

So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
could the problem be?

Help most appreciated!

Kind Regards!
 
Gaffer said:
Hello all,

I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
problems.

Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
open and shut them.

So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
crashed, something that had never happened before.

So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
could the problem be?

Help most appreciated!
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If the only problem you're having is detecting CDs, then I would suggest
reinstalling Windows ... it sounds like it's crapped out to me.
 
Hello all,

I recently bought a new graphics card (My other one burned out) and power
supply (ATA 400w P4 Ready & AMD Compatible) and I've been having a few
problems.

Ok so I put my power supply in and it all worked but 2 days later my cd-roms
didn't show up when I went into "My Computer" but they still worked fine in
the sense that the power was still running through them, you could still
open and shut them.
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What's your level of confidence that you'd tried the drives after
installing the video card and new power supply, that they worked at
that point, and later stopped working without any further operating
system changes or work inside the case?

If nothing more was done or changed, then I have to wonder, what power
supply is it? Further down in this post you mention replacing the
power supply again, but was the replacement the same make/model? If
the first relacement was junk, and the second one is the same junk,
well....

So then I swapped both wires that go into my 2 cd-rom drives and for the two
wires that go into my 2 hard drives and when I turned on my PC Windows 98
crashed, something that had never happened before.
Click to expand...

Have you checked the voltages, in the bios, a windows utility, and
with a voltage meter if you have one available?

I'd try removing, unplugging both CD-ROM drives, using the system for
a period, to see if it's otherwise working 100% stable, including
during stress-testing. You might also try moving the hard drive to
that controller, see if it still works. Of course depending on the
bios' abilities you might then need specify it as the boot drive
again.
So I took it back to the shop and got another power supply and 3 days after
I got the knew one it stopped picking up my cd-roms again (even though I
could open and shut them). Both of them can't be faulty, can they? What else
could the problem be?
Click to expand...

IDE cable?


Dave
 
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