From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Adrian C." Subject: Re: cd-rom troubleshooting Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 12:15:08 +0300 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <60a74689040908021550463bcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <1094624314.1240.17.camel@kaushal> Reply-To: "Adrian C." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1094624314.1240.17.camel@kaushal> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: kaushal Cc: admin Check IDE cable, also check MOLEX connector. IMHO the CDROM is dying quickly. On 08 Sep 2004 11:48:33 +0530, kaushal wrote: > Hello all, > I have a strange problem.My cd rom drive opens the cd sometimes > and sometimes it won't.When cd is inserted and it starts reading it, the > screen(display) becomes garbled and the system gets stuck.I will have to > mannually restart the system. > > Also most of the times when I start my system,the power led glows but > the system doesn't actually startup then again when I restart the system > manually then alone it starts up. > > The first problem happens in WindowsXp most of the times and sometimes > in Linux too. > > Please help me in this aspect or atleast give me few CHECK POINTS by > which I can diagnose the problem. > > Thanks in advance. > Regards- > kaushal > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >