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DVD player problem?
Name: gamerman4 Date: July 7, 2005 at 11:57:01 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home- CPU/Ram: Athalon XP 4000+/1024 MB
Comment:
On my old PC the DVD drive went dead so I replaced the drive with an older drive from an older PC. It ran well for about a week but one morning it turns out my processor was friend and my pc wouldn't turn on. Could this have been caused by the DVD drive? I have never heard of hardware drive burning a CPU. Since then I replaced the Mobo, CPU, Power Supply, and VGA card. I want to use the old DVD drive but if it really did cause my cpu to burn, I don't want to use it. any suggestions?
Name: ham30 Date: July 7, 2005 at 15:10:36 Pacific
Reply:
It would be 'possible' (if unlikely) for a defective drive to damage the motherboard, but not the CPU.
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Response Number 2
Name: gamerman4 Date: July 7, 2005 at 17:30:02 Pacific
Reply:
It could have damaged the mobo which resulted in a damaged CPU. But what is wierd, it works just fine in my much older PC. Maybe the drive didn't hurt the CPU, it might have been a different problem. I ordered a brand new DVD drive from newegg so I don't have to worry about it.
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Response Number 3
Name: ham30 Date: July 7, 2005 at 19:14:25 Pacific
Reply:
Hmmm! I answer your question and then you tell me I'm wrong???
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Response Number 4
Name: gamerman4 Date: July 9, 2005 at 00:32:59 Pacific
Reply:
Hey! I meant no offense, I was just thinking about possible reasons why my pc could have been messed up. I never said "HEY you are wrong", I agreed with you but also thought about a possible situation that could have caused the problem...
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