At 01:10 PM 21/03/2006, Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
At 12:52 PM 21/03/2006, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
Has anyone encountered this situation? I added a DVD Dual Layer
Burner (Benq) to an NForce 3 system. Burner worked fine in Socket
A system (KCS SIS MB), now in the NF3 system, it will stop Win2k
from booting. It hangs at the splash screen (the rotating bar
freezes) and never goes forth. If I kept reseting, then the system
would come up (random number of resets), and the Burner would work
fine, no problems. I also found that if I open and shut the burner
at the right time, it boots fine. I'm pretty sure that I'm current
with the board BIOS, but I have to check. Burner runs with no
problems on Nero, only this strange booting problem.
I'd check the capacitors on
Sorry - didn't mean to send that - too much multi-tasking. However,
on a hanging boot up like that, I'd check motherboard caps and power supply.
T
