hardware/rescorce trouble

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john wrote:

> just recently i bought a soyo kt400 dragon mobo with a
> 1.53 athlonxp palomino chip and 2 sticks of 512 pc2100
> ddr ram....this set-up was running real well....until.
> for some reason i'm getting the little cd icon next to my
> pointer like a disk is ready to be played. also, i see
> alot of activity from my hard drive light, when these
> things happen i lock up. i formatted and reinstalled win
> xp pro and still have the problem! was thinking of
> replacing the hard drive.
I would disconnect the CD and see if it still does it.
-max

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yes, i was thinking of disconnecting the cd rom....will
try!
>-----Original Message-----
>john wrote:
>
>> just recently i bought a soyo kt400 dragon mobo with a
>> 1.53 athlonxp palomino chip and 2 sticks of 512 pc2100
>> ddr ram....this set-up was running real well....until.
>> for some reason i'm getting the little cd icon next to
my
>> pointer like a disk is ready to be played. also, i see
>> alot of activity from my hard drive light, when these
>> things happen i lock up. i formatted and reinstalled
win
>> xp pro and still have the problem! was thinking of
>> replacing the hard drive.
>I would disconnect the CD and see if it still does it.
>-max
>
>--
>Programs that I use and recommend (all are free)
>Many thanks to all the people who make these fine
products!
>Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3
>http://www.safer-networking.org/
>Spyware Blaster
>http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html
>Spyware Guard
>http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
>Ad-Aware
>http://www.lavasoftusa.com/
>Sygate Personal Firewall
>http://soho.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
>Avast! For Home
>http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html
>Eraser 5.3
>http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
>CwShredder
>http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4086.html
>HijackThis
>http://www.spychecker.com/program/hijackthis.html
>Thunderbird
>http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
>Firefox
>http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
>
>This message is virus free as far I can tell
>Change nomail.afraid.org to neo.rr.com so you can reply
>(nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for
> Use in Usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
>
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