Aparently it was a registry error. Something about upper and lower filters. So I guess I dont need help lol.

UPDATE!! Windows now says "Windows has successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device.(Code 41)" The device is enabled and the BIOS still recognizes it.

I have a Gateway M520 laptop. The CD/DVD drive does not show up on Windows. The tray will open and close just fine, the light blinks like its reading it but does not register. Windows said the...

I had the same problem recently and it turned out to be the mobo. I had an MSI also.

Well it turned out to be the mobo. Thanks for all your help guys.

By the way the machine is custom. A friend made it. P4 2.8 GHZ, 512MB ram, 128MB Ati Radeon video card, 120GB Maxtor HHD. The mobo is an MSI. It ws built in 2004. If yall need any other specs...

All the fans are clean. I deleted the partition, formated, and re installed windows. To my surprise it froze during the windows installation lol. So.. Its the hard drive right??

I also hooked up the hard drive to a different PC and scanned it with SeaTools. I ran all 4 tests and all 4 got about 1% to the end and aborted. I will try what you said and Ill repost.
Thank You

well I did a surface scan of the HD and it came back ok. So i tried 2 different hard drives, 1 said no operating system (it has one) the other just a blank screen with a flashing cursor. I also...

Yes that is correct

OK my PC started freezing I scanned viruses and spy-ware. I cleaned out all the temp files, Internet files and so on. It still kept freezing so i said f it and i reformatted and reinstalled...

It very well could be your motherboard. Ill check around to see what I can find out. Motherboards arent the cheapest to buy especially from HP.

Try resetting your BIOS. On the motherboard there is a small watch battery. Remove this battery along with the power cable from the power supply. Hold down the power button to fully discharge the...

Did it beep before you had the problem?

Reinstall your Operating System

When you first turn your PC on, do you get any strange beeps that werent there before you had the problem?

Try reinstalling you sound card driver.

Try checking out your audio properties. See if anything is wrong with your sound hardware.

Ok, first the down volume button does not turn the volume down it mutes the sound and acts as the delete key And a couple of other keys. The up volume button is fine. The right Windows button acts...

I downloaded a couple different temp monitoring proggies but all of them only come up with two sensors HDD and THRM. I read up on THRM and appartently its the CPU temp. Which brings me to another...

The fans are fine i just cleaned them a couple days ago.

Its the ACPI temp according to SpeedFan.

I just bought a Gateway m520 laptop. I downloaded SpeedFan and it says the mobo is hot. It fluctuates from 106 F to 124 F. Is this too hot? Being it is a laptop high temps are expected. But I was...