CD Problem

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by stickman, May 24, 2006.

  1. stickman

    stickman Private E-2

    Me nephew brought a used motherboard on EBay. It crashed his computer. I changed the motherboard. When I boot up, the IDE search finds the hard drives, but not the cd-rom or the dvd. Besides the obvious reasons like ribbon cable or power plug, is the any other reasons why these will not power up. I can't even get power to open the trays. Could that bad motherboard have fried the cd and dvd?

    Thanks.
     
    stickman, May 24, 2006
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  2. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Try them in another computer, if poss. .....does everything else work? ....check the bios voltages report ....I'm wondering if it's a bad power supply, since it's two devices. :confused: :confused:
     
    TimW, May 24, 2006
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  3. stickman

    stickman Private E-2

    I tried both on another computer and neither would power to open tray. Why would both stop working just like that?
     
    stickman, May 24, 2006
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  4. TimW

    TimW MajorGeeks Administrator - Jedi Malware Expert Staff Member

    Frankly don't know how a mobo would zap both drives ....unless there was some surge that went through your power supply and blew both mobo and drives ...should have blown itself, I would think!!:confused: :confused:
     
    TimW, May 24, 2006
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