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BSOD when ejecting CD ROM
I have seen other posts on this and other tech forums - I would like to add my experience and ask for any advice also. I have a 4 yr old Dimension 5000 running XP. Last year I started getting the BSOD on manually ejecting CDs from our CD Rom drive. On the first couple of times, I blamed it on the CD's/software, as it was nearly always my son's various PC game disks. A few more times in, it happened with various other sorts of disks, ones we'd copied data to, or were copying data from. I could never figure out what the BSOD meant as I could never find any virus or other problem on scanning. About 14 months ago, our PC crashed badly, with a System32 driver error. £60 of Dell support got it back, fairly painlessly, and I was told it was a driver corruption, and didn't know why, but it was working again. We have had about a year's use with a few BSOD incidents in the meantime, and I can't say if they increased in frequency or not, but maybe - we don't use the CD ROM drive so much really. Then a few months ago, we had a few BSOD's and then a major crash again. I thought 'Oh no, but at least Dell can get it back.' £230 of support later, from Dell and a private PC doctor, I was assured it was a hardware problem. I also had a totally corrupted, destroyed hard drive, months of data and irreplaceable photos lost and £230 in the toilet. The eventual diagnosis was that possibly the CD ROM had been 'shorting' and causing the BSOD, each time, causing just a bit more damage to the hard drive, until the drive was wrecked. So - and here's where the cry for help comes in - I have bought and installed a new hard drive, a new CD ROM drive, and except for the motherboard and cables, it's a new PC. Started to slowly rebuild my system and all the lost data - reloaded all the s/ware from the original disks, etc. Guess what, I have used my new CD ROM drive a handful of times, and already, 2 BSOD's! I am devastated. I have scanned, virus checked - nothing - and am just about to chkdsk soon to see if there is already damage to my brand new hard drive... If I can pluck up courage. Is it a faulty cable? A faulty motherboard? I can't understand what it is about the CDROM drive eject which crashes the PC, and I don't think it can be the various programs as has been discussed. HELP please.... Any clues? (nb also posted to General Hardware.)