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OK, I don't even know where to begin. Everything was fine a week ago, and
now it's gone bonkers. I bought a DVD burner, installed it and everything
was fine. I burned a couple of disks; things worked. Then one day it
stopped in the middle of a disk and has not worked since. I keep getting an
error message like "can not read device because of I/O error". In the
process of trying to make it work, I took it out and put it back in, just as
I had before. About the same time, I was having trouble with my EZ
antivirus. I was told to run Winsock, which I did. Now my computer keeps
restarting, sometimes right when I start the computer. The long story is
because I do not know what caused the problem. I have checked, and the
auto-restart on critical errors is not enabled in windows xp. Could some
one help me, or direct me to possible solutions to my problem:

1. Why is my computer restarting for no apparent reason?
2. Why can't I get my DVD player to work?
--
Joker
You have to be very careful when you do a Google search for "vacuum
enthusiast"

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"Joker" <post_master@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:5yV4e.2342$3z3.1894@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> OK, I don't even know where to begin. Everything was fine a week ago, and
> now it's gone bonkers. I bought a DVD burner, installed it and everything
> was fine. I burned a couple of disks; things worked. Then one day it
> stopped in the middle of a disk and has not worked since. I keep getting
> an
> error message like "can not read device because of I/O error". In the
> process of trying to make it work, I took it out and put it back in, just
> as
> I had before. About the same time, I was having trouble with my EZ
> antivirus. I was told to run Winsock, which I did. Now my computer keeps
> restarting, sometimes right when I start the computer. The long story is
> because I do not know what caused the problem. I have checked, and the
> auto-restart on critical errors is not enabled in windows xp. Could some
> one help me, or direct me to possible solutions to my problem:
>
> 1. Why is my computer restarting for no apparent reason?
> 2. Why can't I get my DVD player to work?
> --
> Joker
> You have to be very careful when you do a Google search for "vacuum
> enthusiast"
>
>
>
>

A few things to check.

Power supply. Be sure it is producing enough clean power. The addition of
the DVD could be over stressing it.
Fans. Check all the fans including the CPU fan.
Check your RAM. If you have two sticks of RAM try each one by itself. If
one doesn't work then you found your answer. If they both work look at the
fans and power supply.

I doubt it is a driver or antivirus issue.

QQ