BSoD

[Castor]

Ive been having a problem with my computer for some time now, and havnt been able to come up with an answer yet, maybe one of yall can help me out.

Currently, I have a DVD player/ CD burner combo drive connected to my computer, and the computer runs fine with it.
When I try to connect any other cd-drive, like the actual cd-rom that I have, or a DVD burner that I have, windows will crash to a Blue Screen of Death. Usually this crash takes place while windows is loading.

I know these drives work, I had the CD-rom on my other computer, and the DVD is brand new.


Oh, and its WindowsXP Pro.


Any help would be GREATLY appreciated....

[atamanch]

Disconnect the combo drive and then put whatever drives you want in, see if it does the same thing. Wierd.

[Major Tom]

Be sure you have the drives set to master/slave as needed. Sometime if both are cable select mode it will cause strange issues. You also don't want to put a slower ide device like a cd-rom on the same channel as your HD drive as the channel will slow down to accommodate the slower device.