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I just bought a lite on dvd drive for my computer. I
have a pentium 4 2.4 ghz processor with a gigabyte of ram
and am running win xp. I had a regular cd drive which is
set as my master drive. I also have a sony dru 510a dvd
burner which is set as the slave drive. Those drives
lead to one of their interface ports on my mobo. The
other port has a single ide cable and went from my hard
drive to the mobo. My hard drive is a seagate barricuda
4 60gb hd. I changed the ide cable so i could put my new
dvd reading drive into my computer. The ide cable then
went from the new dvd drive to the hard drive to the
mobo. I set the dvd drive on slave, then booted up.
Instantly i got a boot failure: system haulted. I then
tried putting the new dvd drive on master and same result
when i booted up. I decided to take out my old cd drive
and put the dvd drive in there instead. I set the new
dvd drive to master (the dvd burner is on slave) and then
replaced the ide cable which i had used before on my hd
and hooked the ide from the hd to the mobo. I then
started up the computer again and once again i got boot
failure: system haulted. I have no idea what i did
wrong. Any ideas from anyone? Please help!
I just bought a lite on dvd drive for my computer. I
have a pentium 4 2.4 ghz processor with a gigabyte of ram
and am running win xp. I had a regular cd drive which is
set as my master drive. I also have a sony dru 510a dvd
burner which is set as the slave drive. Those drives
lead to one of their interface ports on my mobo. The
other port has a single ide cable and went from my hard
drive to the mobo. My hard drive is a seagate barricuda
4 60gb hd. I changed the ide cable so i could put my new
dvd reading drive into my computer. The ide cable then
went from the new dvd drive to the hard drive to the
mobo. I set the dvd drive on slave, then booted up.
Instantly i got a boot failure: system haulted. I then
tried putting the new dvd drive on master and same result
when i booted up. I decided to take out my old cd drive
and put the dvd drive in there instead. I set the new
dvd drive to master (the dvd burner is on slave) and then
replaced the ide cable which i had used before on my hd
and hooked the ide from the hd to the mobo. I then
started up the computer again and once again i got boot
failure: system haulted. I have no idea what i did
wrong. Any ideas from anyone? Please help!