On 26 Jun 2006 at 7:16, Sharol wrote: > Just out of curiosity, did the problem start before or after you replaced > the power supply?
After -- that's why I was wondering if the flaking-out *old* PS might have damaged something (I was guessing/hoping that the new one was OK). But I have another amusing little problem I discovered. I went to burn the MS memory diag to a CD and my system will now not recognize a blank CD-R. I put in a blank CD, the drive light flashes for a while, and then explorer (and Nero) both resolutely tell me that the drive is empty. So I burned the CD on my desktop system, and tried to boot from it. The BIOS boot sequence did a "booting from ATAPI drive"... but it wouldn't boot [and eventually timed ou and just booted from the HD. This from both my drives [the CD-RW drive and the DVD burner]. Very odd -- sounding more and more like something got fried on my MoBo when the power supply flaked out. Oddly: the DVD drive still works fine for burning DVDs and the CD-ROM drive seems to work with "pitted" CD's, rather than burned ones... I wonder how hard/expensive it is to get a new MoBo [and I wonder if I can even *find* a floppy to see if my ailing desktop will be able to boot from it..:o)] /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
