Hello again. It’s tough isn’t it?
Following the sickness of my main computer (see “Big Trouble”) and being stuck with a slow old banger, I have started to build another. AMD 64 4000+ processor, and Gigabyte M55plus motherboard, bought on ebay… SO I fired it up and it recognised the processor and the memory (1GB in dual channel) and I went through the bios; all seemed OK. SO today I installed a working DVD player (IDE type), and suddenly all was not well. Processor LED flat out, bios very slow, wouldn’t recognise the DVD. Gave up, reinstalled the DVD into the original computer and when connected computer hangs before boot. Disconnect DVD and computer boots and runs OK – slow as usual.
So I presume that the Gigabyte motherboard has destroyed the DVD; is this likely/possible?
Once again, thanks in advance
Paul
