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CAPTAIN GENIUS !! asked in Computers & InternetHardwareDesktops · 8 years ago

Computer guys I need your help!!?

Today I was copying some photo's to a DVD for a customer. Everything was going well until I decided to make a light scribe label for the disk.

The computer randomly turned off and then restarted. Once the computer restarted I tried to complete the light scribe label. Which I was able to complete. However a few moments after I finished the label and exited out of the light scribe program the computer shut down again and restarted.

I checked the event log and found a slew of errors relating to the particular disc drive I was using. I had a bunch from today and also from last week when I was making another disc for a different event.

Could a faulty disc drive make a computer shut down?.

Both of my CD drives are LG. They are both about 2 years old.

My system is an i5 2500K with an ASUS P8 Z68-V Gen 2 with 8 gigs of corsair vengeance DDR3 1600 ram, an EVGA GTX570 and 1tb WD caviar black HDD. I also have a Corsair HX750 watt PSU.

Update:

I'm also using windows 7 64bit.

Update 2:

Thanks everyone. The PSU was fine. I checked all the rails with a multimeter. Everything is dead on.

I ran the computer for two hours with no DVD drives installed. But as soon as I shut down the PC and plugged in one of the LG drives it started to act funny again.

I took a Samsung DVD drive out of a friends PC and it worked fine. I even burned a couple CD's to. I checked the event log after using the Samsung drive and everything checked out fine.

So both LG drives will be going in the trash (I'm think I found the reason why they sell for $12 lol). I ordered two 24x ASUS drives online. They have a tone of good reviews so hopefully I'll get a product that lasts me a while.

I ordered two of these drives in black. http://www.asus.com/us/Optical_Drives/DRW24B1ST

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  • ilovesqueak
    8 years ago
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    try running the system with the disc drive disconnected hardware wise from the pc and use it for a day or something and see if it still does it.. fault hardware does very weird things.. its not all logical belive it or not when it comes to computers HOWEVER i would be more concerned about the psu because faulty psu do very odd things to componets and system as a whole

  • Yash
    8 years ago

    Its a tricky one!!!! a cd causing the PC to shut down!!?? It should only affect the cd drive but this happened to me also. At a time when CD Doesn't respond, the CPU puts most of its memory and processing speed to the CD to load it but when it is suddenly closed the PC faces a sudden pressure after starting again. This is true. I'm sorry but take it to a great hardware engineer to see all the parts cause I'm not sure

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    failing harddrive or faulty power supply

    my dads 3.3v rail went nuts to red zone 4.6 and kept restarting

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