Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

[Guest Mike]

I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I

added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The machine

worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing

windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive

I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.

and launch EAC or Nero 7

Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this

and what the cause might be.

 

Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?

 

My computer information

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300

8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS

Motherboard Intel DP35DP

1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM

Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive

GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB

 

Thanks for any help you can give.

[Guest Carlos]

RE: Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

 

Mike,

If possible, try your IDE drive in another PC in order to see whether the

problem persists or not.

Also you might want to clean the drive laser lens, maybe it is a little

dirty and causes the freezing effect when trying to read the disc.

Carlos

 

"Mike" wrote:

> I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I

> added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The machine

> worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing

> windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive

> I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.

> and launch EAC or Nero 7

> Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this

> and what the cause might be.

>

> Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?

>

> My computer information

> Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300

> 8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS

> Motherboard Intel DP35DP

> 1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM

> Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive

> GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB

>

> Thanks for any help you can give.

>

[Guest thecreator]

Re: Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

 

Hi Mike,

 

Are you using magicJack? Some of the devices are causing freezing of the

XP operating system. Pull magicJack out and the operating system returns to

speed.

 

http://www.magicjack.com/1/index.asp

 

--

thecreator

 

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:1C92FEDE-3B59-4177-9EBF-975914F55581@microsoft.com...

>I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I

> added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The

> machine

> worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing

> windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive

> I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.

> and launch EAC or Nero 7

> Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix

> this

> and what the cause might be.

>

> Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?

>

> My computer information

> Intel® CoreT 2 Quad Processor Q9300

> 8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS

> Motherboard Intel DP35DP

> 1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM

> Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive

> GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB

>

> Thanks for any help you can give.

>