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by thegodoys

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My CD-RW (Samsung 8x4x24) has worked fine for two years. Lately, however, my system crashes every time I try to access it or when I put a disk into it and it tries to autorun. I usually get a blue screen "Fatal Exception OE" but the system will sometimes freeze before I even get to the blue screen. I have an old 6x CD-ROM that works just fine.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers it came with and updated drivers from the web site. I have also tried to reinstall windows. It showsup in Control Panel:System:Devices without any exclamation points. When the system starts up, it is recognized in CMOS (IDE2 Master - set to Auto in the Bios) I am able to use it in DOS.
I bought a new CDRW drive (plextor 24x10x40) and I'm having the exact same problems. Replacing the motherboard didn't work either.

What else could it be? Windows? Power Supply?

Specs:
Win98
600MHZ 256RAM
2 hard drives
2 CD Drives (the trouble drive won't work as master or slave)

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by netuser

Try replace the ide cables. Install the hard drives using separate controller as masters and install the cd drives as slaves. If still doesn't work, the trouble drive is defective.

by dmiles

Power Supply may be the culprit,it may not be performing properly,it needs to be checked to see if it is working properly,check the connectors and also if possible check the voltage with a volt meter
Depending on the type of graphics card,it may bepulling power that is not available to the CD-RW

by zlitocook

Save all your files to another drive or cdw and format the c: drive. Your c drive is to full or corrupt to do any thing with. After you format it copy and reinstall all programs. It's best to do this at least every 6 months.

by dpalsen

Don't worry about the reformat. It's not going to help, I don't think. First, I would check the software. See if using different software, or reinstalling helps (I'm assuming you're using either Adaptec or Nero?)

If that doesn't help, make sure the two drives aren't on the same IDE channel. I've had a LOT of problems with that. Put one hard drive and one CD on each channel and try that.

Finally, soulrider, as usual, has the right idea. Check your voltages.

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