CD drive crashing my system

[Richard]

I put together my first system from scratch recently.
Everything went well for the first week or two... now
I've run into a severe problem. I installed two CD drives-
-the slave is a read-only and the primary is a
rewritable. I think I first noticed the problem after I
updated the drivers for the primary... when I start the
computer or when I try to use the primary CD drive, my
system crashes... BAAAAD. I mean, we're talkin complete
freeze up, here. Not even the blue screen of death, just
a total shut down, power off, nada/zip/zilch. Device
manager tells me it's working properly, there are four
drivers listed (cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys, and
storprop.dll are the four drivers device manager lists
attached to that drive). I tried updating the drivers
through device manager's convenient wizard, but received
the message that current drivers are the best... I can't
record cd's, can't even boot up my box without making
sure the drive door on that cd is open so that the system
will skip trying to read it. HELP!?

[Rich Barry]

Remove one of the Drives and see what happens. What's your Power Supply look
like?
"Richard" > wrote in message
...
> I put together my first system from scratch recently.
> Everything went well for the first week or two... now
> I've run into a severe problem. I installed two CD drives-
> -the slave is a read-only and the primary is a
> rewritable. I think I first noticed the problem after I
> updated the drivers for the primary... when I start the
> computer or when I try to use the primary CD drive, my
> system crashes... BAAAAD. I mean, we're talkin complete
> freeze up, here. Not even the blue screen of death, just
> a total shut down, power off, nada/zip/zilch. Device
> manager tells me it's working properly, there are four
> drivers listed (cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys, and
> storprop.dll are the four drivers device manager lists
> attached to that drive). I tried updating the drivers
> through device manager's convenient wizard, but received
> the message that current drivers are the best... I can't
> record cd's, can't even boot up my box without making
> sure the drive door on that cd is open so that the system
> will skip trying to read it. HELP!?

[Richard]

I tried physically disconnecting the 'bad' CD drive and
just booting up with a single drive... the system hung
during boot-up, wouldn't even go to the POST screen...
the chip's an AMD and their site doesn't list my ASUS
board as one of their 'approved/compatible' boards... I'm
wondering if this boils down to the BIOS not enjoying the
company of the drivers I updated?

....then again, I'm still wondering why we park in
driveways and drive on parkways...


>-----Original Message-----
>Remove one of the Drives and see what happens. What's
your Power Supply look
>like?
>"Richard" > wrote in message
...
>> I put together my first system from scratch recently.
>> Everything went well for the first week or two... now
>> I've run into a severe problem. I installed two CD
drives-
>> -the slave is a read-only and the primary is a
>> rewritable. I think I first noticed the problem after I
>> updated the drivers for the primary... when I start the
>> computer or when I try to use the primary CD drive, my
>> system crashes... BAAAAD. I mean, we're talkin complete
>> freeze up, here. Not even the blue screen of death,
just
>> a total shut down, power off, nada/zip/zilch. Device
>> manager tells me it's working properly, there are four
>> drivers listed (cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys, and
>> storprop.dll are the four drivers device manager lists
>> attached to that drive). I tried updating the drivers
>> through device manager's convenient wizard, but
received
>> the message that current drivers are the best... I
can't
>> record cd's, can't even boot up my box without making
>> sure the drive door on that cd is open so that the
system
>> will skip trying to read it. HELP!?
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