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Since I put in a cd-rewriter last weekend my computer keeps crashing for no apparent reason. Can anyone shed any light on this, or offer any solutions, those of you who have been following the Urban Guerilla saga will know about my RAM problems. Will more RAM help my crashing problem? Look forward to your responses, and whats the deal with them little meesages at the bottom of each post?
Peace out
Urban

Er what sort of crashes ? Blue screen of death or computer resets ?
What have you got plugged into your ide cables at the moment disk drive and cd/dvd drive wise ? Are you using the cd writer at the time or is it just random ?

The screen just freezes, if I`ve got music on it just stops. i have the Hard drive connected to IDE1 and a DVD-ROM and CD-Rewriter connected to IDE2, and the floppy is in there somewhere. I`m not using the CD-Rewriter when it crashes or freezes or whatever the correct term is. I don`t know what lse to tell you, but any help will be gratefully received.
Cheers
Peace out
Urban

Hi,
check your device manager to check for any conflicts.
Otherwise,I would uninstall and then reinstall the writer,looks to me like a driver conflict.

Peace out

please...we`re not yanks here.

As for your problem, you may have knocked something loose when fitting your drive - its worth checking your memory is sitting in nice & tight as well as your graphics card. And check your temps. Especially with the weather we`ve been having internal temps have got quite a bit warmer. Also, what rating is your PSU? If its anything under 350watts, get a replacement.

Thanks for the advice, everything`s secure inside. And I`ll say peace out if i want to thank you very much.....
so..
Peace out (that was especially for neal)
Urban

Urban, might be worth checking you`ve not picked up that MSBlast virus, I`ve seen two PCs at work today with sporadic hanging/crashing problems, both had it. Long shot but worth ruling out.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html