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Default Pc freeze

"Bob Kos" wrote in
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When ever I put a cd in the cd player my screen freeze, usually it`s
a burn cd, movies or musics. please help!

Three things come to mind:

1) Defective CD Reader. If you can, substitute a known good reader.
If you have two readers installed, are they both exhibiting the same
symptom?

2) Poor connections at CD Reader, motherboard, or both. Ensure cables
are properly seated.

3) Defective IDE controller on motherboard. Change configuration of
Hard Drive and CD Reader so that the hard drive is master, reader is
slave and both share the same IDE ribbon cable. Disconnect the second
IDE cable. See if the reader works OK while piggybacked to the hard
drive. If so, either leave it this way, buy a second IDE card, or buy
a new motherboard.




4) Bad software or OS install.

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