OK guys, here's a strange one....Just rebuilt my comp with new MB and Proc, and Power Supply...Everything works great except for one really strange phenomena...The damn board won't get past the BIOS boot screen with my CDRW hooked up...Hangs at the detecting drives stage...Can't even get into the BIOS at that point...Nothing wrong with the drive as it works fine in the other 3 comps in the house...Now here's the wierd part, as soon as I hook up the IDE cable, there's no power to the drive...won't open or anything...It's not the drive controller on the board as I even tried a PCI IDE controller card, same thing...really wierd...Any ideas??
Specs...
AMD AthlonXp2500+ w/Barton core
Abit AN-7 board
512 PC 3200
Antec 400W PS
Everything within spec running all at default (no overclocking)
I consider myself fairly good at this type of thing, but I'm totally lost at this point...I could buy another burner , but that's not the point...
Any help would be greatly appreciated....TIA
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