Charles Bradshaw
Flashlight Enthusiast
This month I bought an NEC ND-2500A 8X all in one DVD burner (+ and -). I connected it to my computer (it is an eide internal drive), turned the power on, and:
No Video signal
No Post Beep
No Post
No Boot
Needless to say I was /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif and merrily /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif away!
Anyways, I had a friend of mine bring over a computer system (IBM Aptiva), which he uses to test hardware. We hooked up the DVD burner in the Aptiva and it had NO problems with the DVD burner.
This narrowed the problem source down to either my motherboard and/or my Video Card.
Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee motherboard
ATI XPert 2000 Pro AGP video card
This morning I okayed getting both a new video card and motherboard to figure out where the problem is. I need both anyways for my secondary system. The video card is an NVidia and the motherboard is a Gigabyte.
Now I am about to swap video cards on the chaintech mobo and connect the DVD burner to see what happens for bootup. Even if this works, I have to swap thing back to get Linux drivers and installation information for Linux. then the fun of compiling after re-installing linux. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
If not, then I will have to do a complete swap and may be off linux until I am confident enough to do a kernel patch for the nforce2 chipset and the video driver installation and compiling.
See everyone back here soon. (I hope!)
PS: I will update with results of the first test before going any further. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
No Video signal
No Post Beep
No Post
No Boot
Needless to say I was /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif and merrily /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rant.gif away!
Anyways, I had a friend of mine bring over a computer system (IBM Aptiva), which he uses to test hardware. We hooked up the DVD burner in the Aptiva and it had NO problems with the DVD burner.
This narrowed the problem source down to either my motherboard and/or my Video Card.
Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee motherboard
ATI XPert 2000 Pro AGP video card
This morning I okayed getting both a new video card and motherboard to figure out where the problem is. I need both anyways for my secondary system. The video card is an NVidia and the motherboard is a Gigabyte.
Now I am about to swap video cards on the chaintech mobo and connect the DVD burner to see what happens for bootup. Even if this works, I have to swap thing back to get Linux drivers and installation information for Linux. then the fun of compiling after re-installing linux. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif
If not, then I will have to do a complete swap and may be off linux until I am confident enough to do a kernel patch for the nforce2 chipset and the video driver installation and compiling.
See everyone back here soon. (I hope!)
PS: I will update with results of the first test before going any further. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif