Another short PC lockup question

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PC_Man

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Okay. I figured out that any DVD drive that is hooked up to this system, that's when the pc starts getting screwy. Everything is SATA, but I've done tried 2 different DVD drives in the quad core, and its only when I unhook them that the computer runs fine.

I noticed in my last post, someone said a bad hard drive would cause lockups and other issues.

I was playing, Luxor, kind of similiar to Zuma. Anyhow when I was playing the mouse had locked up, but the balls on the screen were still moving. Later on I had the "Starfield" screensaver on, and the stars stopped moving.

All these problems happen when a DVD drive is hooked to the system.

My question here is, is it possible the C: drive or even the D: drive is bad?

Because as of right now, no DVD drives are hooked up to the computer, and it has been running normally all night with no lockups or slowdowns of any kind.
 
What brand and model computer do you have?

It sounds like it may be the power supply failing.
Plugging in the optical drive is using just enough
power to make the graphics card fail. Maybe.
 
Bodaggit23 said:
What brand and model computer do you have?

It sounds like it may be the power supply failing.
Plugging in the optical drive is using just enough
power to make the graphics card fail. Maybe.
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Not really a brand or model, got it at a computer show, as that's where I get all of my pc's and this is the first time ever i've experienced this many problems
 
Im not sure what Mobo you are running but if it has an NVIDIA chipset, make sure you are running the most recent version of the chipset drivers. Its very likely that the drivers that came with the MOBO HATE SATA Optical drives.
 
gorfitelli said:
Im not sure what Mobo you are running but if it has an NVIDIA chipset, make sure you are running the most recent version of the chipset drivers. Its very likely that the drivers that came with the MOBO HATE SATA Optical drives.
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Ah, the Motherboard is ASUS

The Chipset that is listed in the manual is NVIDIA GeForce 7050/nForce 610i (MCP73V)

Both the hard drives are SATA and ever since i've disconnected the DVD drive, the computer is still running as it should, no lockups or etc.
 
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PC_Man said:
Ah, the Motherboard is ASUS

The Chipset that is listed in the manual is NVIDIA GeForce 7050/nForce 610i (MCP73V)

Both the hard drives are SATA and ever since i've disconnected the DVD drive, the computer is still running as it should, no lockups or etc.
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I hate to double post here but, would it have anything to do with the dvd drive having its own drivers or any motherboard drivers i'd need from the Asus website as well?
 
Yep.....you need to update the chipset drivers which I believe you can do on the Mobo website

I am 100% certain that this is your problem....and Im not just guessing...I lived this when I built a high end gaming rig...with....yep you guessed it, an Asus motherboard using the Nvidia chipset
 
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gorfitelli said:
Yep.....you need to update the chipset drivers which I believe you can do on the Mobo website

I am 100% certain that this is your problem....and Im not just guessing...I lived this when I built a high end gaming rig...with....yep you guessed it, an Asus motherboard using the Nvidia chipset
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Wow ok. I was at the Asus website, but I didn't see any chipset drivers for my motherboard, I only found those at the Nvidia website, however there were update drivers for my specific motherboard at the Asus website, wasn't sure if I needed those or not.

So should I get the chipset drivers from Nvidia.com since I saw them there?

If it helps any, the motherboard is P5N73-AM
 
PC_Man said:
...there were update drivers for my specific motherboard at the Asus website, wasn't sure if I needed those or not.
So should I get the chipset drivers from Nvidia.com since I saw them there?
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I would start with the Asus mobo updates and if that doesnt fix the problem grab the chipset driver updates from Nvidia. there should be release notes on either of them that explain what these updates address.....you should see some information dealing with SATA opticals.
 
gorfitelli said:
I would start with the Asus mobo updates and if that doesnt fix the problem grab the chipset driver updates from Nvidia. there should be release notes on either of them that explain what these updates address.....you should see some information dealing with SATA opticals.
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I went back to the Asus website, and there was a section for chipset drivers. It didn't mention anything about SATA Opticals or just SATA in general, so I went to the Nvidia website, and at the moment, have found 2 drivers but i'm not sure which to install.

The first one was labeled as a chipset driver

*nforce_winxp_16.08_english_whql

When I went to install this, I had the options of installing these drivers, Display Driver, SMBus Driver, SMU Driver, Ethernet Driver (which is currently up to date) and Mediashield Driver.

The second time I went to Nvidia's website, I had found under the Driver download section

*15.26_nforce_winxp32_international_whql

When I ran that it still gave me the option of installing the previous drivers I named, and added 2 more drivers that I could install, Away Mode Driver and Storage Driver.

I have not installed any drivers as of yet as i'm not sure if these listed drivers will help me or not.
 
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I dont know if this means anything, but in control panel, I was looking at the Event Viewer, and noticed a red X marked error then the word cdrom, and I saw 2 different error messages.

The first one was, The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0

The other message on a different error was, driver \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block

Is this significant at all as to why the system locks up?
 
Not only all that above which I mentioned, but I was in the Event Viewer and saw this error message

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\CdRom0.

I've searched for this online and have seen many many people with the same problem, with other optical drives, mine is LG, but i've seen people explain how its happened to them on Pioneer, Sony, etc.

But everyone who has had this problem, it looks like to me has yet to solve it. And it seems like it could be a million things, Mobo, SATA Cables, the drive itself, drivers being out of date. For me, I think its either the cables are bad, or could be the drivers. I don't believe its the drive, as I tried a totally different optical drive, LiteOn, and I got the same result.

I did see someone mention how they switched their cords from the hard drive into the dvd drive, and they started getting the errors on the hard drive, about the controller error. Lastly, there was this error message in the event viewer,

Driver \Device\CdRom0, has a bad block.

I didn't even have to search for that error as it seems the controller error and the bad block error are linked.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
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