I built my computer. New motherboard,cpu. When I put the cd burner in the computer would not boot at all. When I put a differant cd-rom in and it boots just fine. Is there any way to find out what is wrong or how to test it. And is there any way to fix it. If you need more info please tell me.
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Jump to Postis the burner on the same ide chanel as the hard drive ,if so it it set to slave ,have you tried it on the secondary ide set as master .???
Jump to PostThe computer should still boot if it were a bad cd burner,
Jump to PostConnect just the power cable to the drive, and not the IDE cable, and see if the computer boots. If not, then there is a short on either the +5v or the +12v lines in the drive. The computer power supply sees this short and will not power up the …
Jump to PostIt appears that there is a short on the PCB somewhere. If you have a variable DC power supply, you could inject the 12 or 5 v to the appropriate pins and see which one is giving the trouble, and then troubleshoot from there. Unless you are able to troubleshoot …
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