bluebeholder
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Problem:
My brother's computer is 5-6 years old and stopped booting once we tried to remove his dvd drive (we assumed it was not getting enough power to run properly).
System specs:
300W PSU
Athlon 900 MHz
768MB DRAM (100 MHz)
GeForce 2 MX
DVD-ROM 16x
CD-R/RW 48/16/48
Sound Card (I think its SB AWE32- it's in the ISA slot)
USB card (with a Logitek gamepad attached)
USB Linksys WLAN connection point (don't know the technical name for this thing)
IWill KK266 Motherboard
Detailed Problem Information:
He also used to have a modem, but removing it improved the stability of his optical drives (they used to occasionally crash his computer when reading disks- mainly during intense activities like installations. Plus they were finicky about opening when pressing eject button), which is why we thought it was a PSU problem. So we decided to remove the CD Burner also, and we set the DVD to master. Now Windows XP won't boot. It gets to the step where the "Welcome" screen should show up but restarts instead. Booting in safe mode freezes the Windows bootup before it gets that far.
Any ideas on what to fix or need more information?
My brother's computer is 5-6 years old and stopped booting once we tried to remove his dvd drive (we assumed it was not getting enough power to run properly).
System specs:
300W PSU
Athlon 900 MHz
768MB DRAM (100 MHz)
GeForce 2 MX
DVD-ROM 16x
CD-R/RW 48/16/48
Sound Card (I think its SB AWE32- it's in the ISA slot)
USB card (with a Logitek gamepad attached)
USB Linksys WLAN connection point (don't know the technical name for this thing)
IWill KK266 Motherboard
Detailed Problem Information:
He also used to have a modem, but removing it improved the stability of his optical drives (they used to occasionally crash his computer when reading disks- mainly during intense activities like installations. Plus they were finicky about opening when pressing eject button), which is why we thought it was a PSU problem. So we decided to remove the CD Burner also, and we set the DVD to master. Now Windows XP won't boot. It gets to the step where the "Welcome" screen should show up but restarts instead. Booting in safe mode freezes the Windows bootup before it gets that far.
Any ideas on what to fix or need more information?