Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

[Mike]

I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I
added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The machine
worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing
windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive
I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.
and launch EAC or Nero 7
Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this
and what the cause might be.

Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?

My computer information
Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300
8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS
Motherboard Intel DP35DP
1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM
Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive
GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Carlos]

RE: Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

Mike,
If possible, try your IDE drive in another PC in order to see whether the
problem persists or not.
Also you might want to clean the drive laser lens, maybe it is a little
dirty and causes the freezing effect when trying to read the disc.
Carlos

"Mike" wrote:

> I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I
> added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The machine
> worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing
> windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive
> I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.
> and launch EAC or Nero 7
> Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this
> and what the cause might be.
>
> Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?
>
> My computer information
> Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q9300
> 8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS
> Motherboard Intel DP35DP
> 1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM
> Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive
> GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>

 

[thecreator]

Re: Windows XP Pro Freeze Issue

Hi Mike,

Are you using magicJack? Some of the devices are causing freezing of the
XP operating system. Pull magicJack out and the operating system returns to
speed.

http://www.magicjack.com/1/index.asp

--
thecreator

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1C92FEDE-3B59-4177-9EBF-975914F55581@microsoft.com...
>I recently purchased a Powerspec E372 machine. From my old computers I
> added a soundblaster sound card, and a plextor ide dvd drive. The
> machine
> worked fine for the first couple weeks. Recently, I have started seeing
> windows xp professional freeze when I put a disc in the plextor ide drive
> I have not seen the problem when using the pioneer sata dvd drive.
> and launch EAC or Nero 7
> Other than changing ide cable, does anyone have any ideas on how to fix
> this
> and what the cause might be.
>
> Could it have anything to do with an IDE drive in an SATA machine?
>
> My computer information
> Intel® CoreT 2 Quad Processor Q9300
> 8GB composed of 4- 2048MB DDR2/800 DIMMS
> Motherboard Intel DP35DP
> 1TB RAID 0 - (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) 7,200 RPM
> Blu-ray ROM / DVD± / ±RW Drive
> GeForce 8800GT PCIe 512MB
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>