Hard drive crash?

It is unlikely you fried your hard drive.

Try booting the computer with just memory and video card ( no hard drives, no CDROMs, no floppy, no network card and no sound card ). The boot and see if you can get the POST. If still nothing works (big problems) then replace your motherboard, memory and video card one at a time. Then slowly add the other devices back and you will find your answer.

Thanks Norm

When you say you get nothing do you mean the power supply fan dose not even run? No sounds from the computer at all? Did you try a diffrent wall socket or try to plug some thing else into the plugin that the computer uses. You may have had a shortedusb port that could fry your mother board. But not the power supply. Did you check to see if the writer is supported by MS?

Sound slike you got your computer hung up in a hardware detection loop. Have you attemped to Boot the PC with AND without the portable CD-RW drive attached? You are not even getting the chance to go into your BIOS setup or boot the machine in a safe mode?

First things first for signs of life....You hear the normal noises of your Athlon, such as the Power supply fan going, hard drives spinning, and drive lights lighting up?

On a working machine (friends, family members, or co-workers)you may need to visit the manufacturers website of the CDRW drive, and see if this is a common occurence. Sounds like a conflict could be happening with either your PCI or AGP video adapter.

Paul M. Chavez

I suspect that the CD drive drew more current off of your USB port then the system was able to supply.

It is very possible that the Motherboard is fried.

Another possability, is that you reached the point where you overloaded your power supply.
If the fans don't even startup, the PS is a likely candidate.
Since it is easier (and cheaper) to replace a power supply, I would start there.

Chas

ok you all are gonna freak this guy out
ok first of all check your cmos
open the case and you will see a jumper(normally neer battery)move it over to the next pin wait for a bit and change it back.
as far as your cdrw update your usb drivers and reinstall cdrw drivers from the harddrive.

Hi dear

Restore the clean registry after taking out that mess

thomas

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