Motherboard wont post with CD rom pluged in

**canadian_divx** · April 30th, 2004

i have a new motherboard to put in a friends computer nad it is a ECS L7VMM3 (actually a good board) but when the cd rom is pluged in it wont post. i hvae changed cambles and all but it still wont post. anyone run into this before or have any ideas???

**Xie** · April 30th, 2004

Perhaps go into the bios and check the boot order?

**canadian_divx** · April 30th, 2004

LOL if i could go into teh bios, it does not post at all, no beep or anything no monitor/video card power up

**Hipster Doofus** · April 30th, 2004

Start checking your power supply.

I'm not going to ask this>>>>Is the cord plugged in?

**canadian_divx** · April 30th, 2004

LOL all cords are pluged in correctly, the PSU is good. also a good one too Thermaltake 420 for my test PSU,
ok it is a long shor but i am going to try it out of the case in case of a short on the board and case but that is a werid idea but it is all i can think of.

**Admiral Michael** · April 30th, 2004

Is the cdrom still good? It could be gone, which might explain why the motherboard wont do anything at all.

**Xie** · April 30th, 2004

Do you have another cd-rom around? If so try that and if it boots then you have found the problem .. not sure why a cd-rom would stop a system from booting though unless it was set as the boot device. :confused:

**Admiral Michael** · April 30th, 2004

from what I understand, when the cdrom is plugged in the computer doesnt turn on at all. So I would do what Xie said: Try another cdrom.

**Xie** · April 30th, 2004

Is this cd-rom being added to IDE channel 1 or 2? Perhaps you have a bad IDE channel? If it's on channel 2 is it the only item on that channel? Perhaps try another device like perhaps an extra HD or something you have laying around on the same IDE channel.

**gonaads** · May 1st, 2004

Now if ya got a HDD already plugged into the MoBo on da Primary IDE channel why don't ya just unplug the CD drive and see if it will post. then go into the BIOS and see if the boot sequence is correct.

Also I had a similar prob. but it was due to adding another HDD and I swapped out the CD drive with a faster one and connected it to the Secondary IDE channel as "master" (set jumper to "master") and stuck the second HDD on the primary as "slave" (jumper - "slave"). It would not find the CD drive nor let me into BIOS.

So I moved the second HDD to the Secondary IDE as "master" and the CD drive back to the Primary IDE as "slave" (reset the jumper to what they were now) then everything worked.

Don't really know if any of that is relavent or not.

They can be quirky as to their position sometimes. I don't know why.

toretto · May 11th, 2004

people, always check the obvious. make sure your jumpers are set correctly on the cd-rom. cable select generally works well, but i prefer to set each one individually.
burners to master, roms to slave. my own personal preference. but it works.

**Kush** · July 1st, 2004

Originally Posted by toretto

people, always check the obvious. make sure your jumpers are set correctly on the cd-rom. cable select generally works well, but i prefer to set each one individually.
burners to master, roms to slave. my own personal preference. but it works.

same here

**LordOfLA** · July 1st, 2004

make sure the cdrom isnt touching the board in anyway. I had cdroms hold up systems by shorting out that way.

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canadian_divx Canadian_divx Joined: June 2002 Location: waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Planet Earth Posts: 1,551 Reputation: 150 Power: 134	Motherboard wont post with CD rom pluged in i have a new motherboard to put in a friends computer nad it is a ECS L7VMM3 (actually a good board) but when the cd rom is pluged in it wont post. i hvae changed cambles and all but it still wont post. anyone run into this before or have any ideas???

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Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,216 Reputation: 1730 Power: 171	Perhaps go into the bios and check the boot order? tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 163	Is the cdrom still good? It could be gone, which might explain why the motherboard wont do anything at all. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,216 Reputation: 1730 Power: 171	Do you have another cd-rom around? If so try that and if it boots then you have found the problem .. not sure why a cd-rom would stop a system from booting though unless it was set as the boot device. :confused: tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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Admiral Michael Michaelsoft Systems CEO Joined: February 2003 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Canada Earth Posts: 3,125 Blog Entries: 8 Reputation: 2216 Power: 163	from what I understand, when the cdrom is plugged in the computer doesnt turn on at all. So I would do what Xie said: Try another cdrom. Apple MacBook Pro Intel Quad-Core i7 2GHz \| Corsair 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory \| WD 750GB 7200RPM Black Edition SATA Hard Drive \| Intel HD Graphics 3000/AMD Radeon HD 6490M 256MB GDDR5 \| 15.4" LED backlit glossy screen @ 1440x900 \| Dual Band Airport Wireless/Bluetooth \| Gigabit Ethernet \| Thunderbolt I/O \| Built-in Webcam \| Backlit Keyboard \| Firewire 800 \| DVDRW \| OS X Lion 10.7.1 My Site \| My DVD Collection \| Your Chevrolet Guy

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April 30th, 2004	Top \| #3
canadian_divx Canadian_divx Joined: June 2002 Location: waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Planet Earth Posts: 1,551 Reputation: 150 Power: 134	LOL if i could go into teh bios, it does not post at all, no beep or anything no monitor/video card power up

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Hipster Doofus Good grief Charlie Brown Joined: May 2002 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 5,920 Reputation: 560 Power: 183	Start checking your power supply. I'm not going to ask this>>>>Is the cord plugged in?

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canadian_divx Canadian_divx Joined: June 2002 Location: waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Planet Earth Posts: 1,551 Reputation: 150 Power: 134	LOL all cords are pluged in correctly, the PSU is good. also a good one too Thermaltake 420 for my test PSU, ok it is a long shor but i am going to try it out of the case in case of a short on the board and case but that is a werid idea but it is all i can think of.

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Xie - geek - Joined: September 2003 Location: NY, USA Posts: 5,216 Reputation: 1730 Power: 171	Is this cd-rom being added to IDE channel 1 or 2? Perhaps you have a bad IDE channel? If it's on channel 2 is it the only item on that channel? Perhaps try another device like perhaps an extra HD or something you have laying around on the same IDE channel. tehgeek \| tehgeek \| geeking out to tech \| IRC \| Parted Magic \| A+ Certified Professional

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gonaads Beware the G-Man Joined: March 2002 Location: XP-erience, NTFS, OSNN, Bay Area, California Posts: 18,474 Reputation: 4070 Power: 345	Now if ya got a HDD already plugged into the MoBo on da Primary IDE channel why don't ya just unplug the CD drive and see if it will post. then go into the BIOS and see if the boot sequence is correct. Also I had a similar prob. but it was due to adding another HDD and I swapped out the CD drive with a faster one and connected it to the Secondary IDE channel as "master" (set jumper to "master") and stuck the second HDD on the primary as "slave" (jumper - "slave"). It would not find the CD drive nor let me into BIOS. So I moved the second HDD to the Secondary IDE as "master" and the CD drive back to the Primary IDE as "slave" (reset the jumper to what they were now) then everything worked. Don't really know if any of that is relavent or not. They can be quirky as to their position sometimes. I don't know why. *"I play violent video games, I could snap at any second."*

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toretto Mentally Absent Joined: February 2004 Location: Mankato, Minnesota, USA Posts: 226 Reputation: 70 Power: 100	people, always check the obvious. make sure your jumpers are set correctly on the cd-rom. cable select generally works well, but i prefer to set each one individually. burners to master, roms to slave. my own personal preference. but it works. Most Used: Genuine Intel(R) D850GB system board Windows* 2000 version 5.0 Service Pack 4 build 2195 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz Bus Speed 400 MHz L1: Data Cache 8KB, Execution Trace Cache 12K Micro-ops L2: Advanced Transfer Cache 256 KB 1,024 MB Kingston PC800 Rambus Memory Ati Radeon 9800 256 1 120gb WD 2 80gb WD HD's striped Sony Dual Layer DVD burner <----Did anything I Said help you at all... please share the love and click the reputation icon.

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	make sure the cdrom isnt touching the board in anyway. I had cdroms hold up systems by shorting out that way.

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