cd rom shuts down pc

[David S.]

My system runs fine unless I put a cd in either of my
drives. I can play numerous games for hours and it is
fine, so I don't think it is an overheating issue. I have
a geforce 4200 ti with 128mb of memory.

When I put a cd in either drive, a mat****a cd rom drive
and a hp cdrw, autoplay kicks in and then it reboots,
every freaking time, nomater if its a data or music cd. I
have tried disabling the autoplay and that doesn't help. I
checked the event viewer and have pasted in the error
below. I searcehd on this site for it and only found a
reference to ms messanger, similiar but not exactly the
same error. That didn't help. Anyone have any
suggestions?

Here is the info from event viewer.

Event ID: 4354

The COM+ Event System failed to fire the
ConnectionMadeNoQOCInfo method on subscription {BB5FE1FE-
1AA8-4194-8FDE-75EF7EA55965}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-
000000000000}-{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}. The
subscriber returned HRESULT 80010105.

Hope this is helpful. It's all greek to me

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Dublevay]

"David S." > wrote in message
...
> My system runs fine unless I put a cd in either of my
> drives. I can play numerous games for hours and it is
> fine, so I don't think it is an overheating issue. I have
> a geforce 4200 ti with 128mb of memory.

A total longshot here, but is it possible that your PSU might not be
powerful enough?

Do you know how many watts it can supply?

JW

[david s]

>A total longshot here, but is it possible that your PSU
might not be
>powerful enough?
>
>Do you know how many watts it can supply?
>
>JW
>

Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if that could be the
problem. I have a 320w (or somethign close to that). Can
they slowly die? I have never had this issue before. I
was thinking that maybe the extra draw when the cd rom
spins up is was is killin it. I have multiple harddrives
and tried running apps on all of them at the same time as
well as accessing the floppy drive and it wnet fine. NOt
sure if the power draw is the same, though. I may just
try to find a cheap power supply and swap them out
anyway.

I have had the same system setup for over a year now with
no problems.

Hmmmm...

[Dublevay]

If you have a lot of equipment on your PC, I'd reckon you really want 350W
at least, preferably 400W.

But what you say about having had the same set up for some time seems to
suggest it isn't that causing the problem. In which case I'm stumped!!
Sorry.

Though as far as I am aware, the power consumption per second from a hard
drive is likely to be less than that from a CD-ROM, so running apps on all
your HDDs at one time may not stress the PSU as much as the CD drives.

JW

"david s" > wrote in message
...
> >A total longshot here, but is it possible that your PSU
> might not be
> >powerful enough?
> >
> >Do you know how many watts it can supply?
> >
> >JW
> >
>
> Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if that could be the
> problem. I have a 320w (or somethign close to that). Can
> they slowly die? I have never had this issue before. I
> was thinking that maybe the extra draw when the cd rom
> spins up is was is killin it. I have multiple harddrives
> and tried running apps on all of them at the same time as
> well as accessing the floppy drive and it wnet fine. NOt
> sure if the power draw is the same, though. I may just
> try to find a cheap power supply and swap them out
> anyway.
>
> I have had the same system setup for over a year now with
> no problems.
>
> Hmmmm...

[Malke]

Dublevay wrote:

> If you have a lot of equipment on your PC, I'd reckon you really want
> 350W at least, preferably 400W.
>
> But what you say about having had the same set up for some time seems
> to suggest it isn't that causing the problem. In which case I'm
> stumped!! Sorry.
>
> Though as far as I am aware, the power consumption per second from a
> hard drive is likely to be less than that from a CD-ROM, so running
> apps on all your HDDs at one time may not stress the PSU as much as
> the CD drives.
>
> JW
>
> "david s" > wrote in message
> ...
>> >A total longshot here, but is it possible that your PSU
>> might not be
>> >powerful enough?
>> >
>> >Do you know how many watts it can supply?
>> >
>> >JW
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I am not sure if that could be the
>> problem. I have a 320w (or somethign close to that). Can
>> they slowly die? I have never had this issue before. I
>> was thinking that maybe the extra draw when the cd rom
>> spins up is was is killin it. I have multiple harddrives
>> and tried running apps on all of them at the same time as
>> well as accessing the floppy drive and it wnet fine. NOt
>> sure if the power draw is the same, though. I may just
>> try to find a cheap power supply and swap them out
>> anyway.
>>
>> I have had the same system setup for over a year now with
>> no problems.
>>

Certainly it could be your power supply going. It could also be that one
of your cd-xxx drives is shorting out. Troubleshoot by 1) trying a
different power supply; or 2) disconnecting one of the drives (one at a
time) so you can see if that is causing the problem. With
troubleshooting, you do one thing at a time and test.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

>Certainly it could be your power supply going. It could
also be that one
>of your cd-xxx drives is shorting out. Troubleshoot by 1)
trying a
>different power supply; or 2) disconnecting one of the
drives (one at a
>time) so you can see if that is causing the problem. With
>troubleshooting, you do one thing at a time and test.
>
>Malke
>--
>Elephant Boy Computers
>www.elephantboycomputers.com
>"Don't Panic!"
>.
Thanks for your help guys. I tried the disconnecting one
cd drive at a time thing, and that wasn't it. Could it be
the cable? I want to try to eliminate everytihgn before I
throw down 50 bucks on a new ps.

[Malke]

wrote:

>>Certainly it could be your power supply going. It could
> also be that one
>>of your cd-xxx drives is shorting out. Troubleshoot by 1)
> trying a
>>different power supply; or 2) disconnecting one of the
> drives (one at a
>>time) so you can see if that is causing the problem. With
>>troubleshooting, you do one thing at a time and test.
>>
>>Malke
>>--
>>Elephant Boy Computers
>>www.elephantboycomputers.com
>>"Don't Panic!"
>>.
> Thanks for your help guys. I tried the disconnecting one
> cd drive at a time thing, and that wasn't it. Could it be
> the cable? I want to try to eliminate everytihgn before I
> throw down 50 bucks on a new ps.

Of course it could be the cable. Replacing the simple things, like a
cable is one of the first things to do.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

[Alec Soroudi]

What CD is it? Could the CD have a virus and set to Auto-Run?

--
Alec S.
alec @ synetech . cjb . net


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"frances" > wrote in message
...
> I started having this same problem a couple of days ago. Drives that have
been working on the same system for 2 years.
>
> When ever I stick a CD in the drive the PC reboots. and reboots and
reboots.
>
> I have tried everything I can think of changing the Cabling, the drive
order, even swapping the drives completely. as soon as I put a CD in any rom
the PC starts boot sequence.
>
> After two days the sytem started reporting a variety of missing dll files
preventing WINXP Home from loading at all. For obvious reasone I could not
use the CDRom to repair the XP installation.
>
> All of these drives were removed form the PC and checked on another PC,
they all work fine. (the WINXP HD freaks a bit over the slightly different
PC config, but it does work)
>
> Even the Floppy has started returning Boot errors.
>
>

[frances]

I started having this same problem a couple of days ago. Drives that have been working on the same system for 2 years.

When ever I stick a CD in the drive the PC reboots. and reboots and reboots.

I have tried everything I can think of changing the Cabling, the drive order, even swapping the drives completely. as soon as I put a CD in any rom the PC starts boot sequence.

After two days the sytem started reporting a variety of missing dll files preventing WINXP Home from loading at all. For obvious reasone I could not use the CDRom to repair the XP installation.

All of these drives were removed form the PC and checked on another PC, they all work fine. (the WINXP HD freaks a bit over the slightly different PC config, but it does work)

Even the Floppy has started returning Boot errors.