Hi, this is a bit of a strange one.
Yesterday I got a new DVD-RW drive (Philips SPD2400), I added into my system as a slave and windows loaded fine, a little balloon came up saying windows had finished installing drivers and needed to reboot, which I did. The next time windows loaded I tried to get into my computer to check it out, and explorer pretty much just froze up on me and died. I reset the pc and it go as far as the "Windows XP" screen with the little loading bar and just sat there.
I rebooted again and checked bios to see if the new drive was recognised , which it was. And tried to load windows - again it just sits there. Which is what it does no matter what I try.
Things I've tried so far;
- Last known configuration
- Safe mode (gets to giveio.sys or something like that and stops)
- Setting the drive as a master on its own
- Setting the drive as a master with a cd drive as slave
- Setting the drive as master with a dvd drive as slave
- Tried the drive in my other pc (a 800 duron running the exact same install of Windows xp pro) - It worked perfectly.
- Tried the IDE cable from that pc in this pc, again no dice.
Sepcs are;
Windows XP Pro sp2
Athlon 2400xp
MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR (mobo)
500W PSU
2 x Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz CL3 Memory Module
Maxtor 6L200P0 Diamondmax 10 200Gb 7200rpm ATA133 8mb Cache
Creative Audigy
Geforce 6600 GT
Any suggestions? Its driving me mad
Yesterday I got a new DVD-RW drive (Philips SPD2400), I added into my system as a slave and windows loaded fine, a little balloon came up saying windows had finished installing drivers and needed to reboot, which I did. The next time windows loaded I tried to get into my computer to check it out, and explorer pretty much just froze up on me and died. I reset the pc and it go as far as the "Windows XP" screen with the little loading bar and just sat there.
I rebooted again and checked bios to see if the new drive was recognised , which it was. And tried to load windows - again it just sits there. Which is what it does no matter what I try.
Things I've tried so far;
- Last known configuration
- Safe mode (gets to giveio.sys or something like that and stops)
- Setting the drive as a master on its own
- Setting the drive as a master with a cd drive as slave
- Setting the drive as master with a dvd drive as slave
- Tried the drive in my other pc (a 800 duron running the exact same install of Windows xp pro) - It worked perfectly.
- Tried the IDE cable from that pc in this pc, again no dice.
Sepcs are;
Windows XP Pro sp2
Athlon 2400xp
MSI K7N2 Delta2-LSR (mobo)
500W PSU
2 x Kingston 512MB DDR PC3200 400MHz CL3 Memory Module
Maxtor 6L200P0 Diamondmax 10 200Gb 7200rpm ATA133 8mb Cache
Creative Audigy
Geforce 6600 GT
Any suggestions? Its driving me mad