Hi
I really need your help again, my problem being is that every time I reboot my machine just before the windows logo appears I get a blue screen appearing for a split second then it tries to restart over and over and the only way I can get it to load is to reset my bios to factory settings. The only thing that does not show in the bios is the DVD rom drives which I have 2 of, and when I do get it going they do not always work. I’m not really up on computers so if you have any ideas I would be grateful also please let me know if you have any more questions.
I have included a attach of my hardware if this will help

Is this a new problem?

When it boots correctly are all the drives detected in your Device Manager?

How exactly are you resetting your BIOS? Are you just setting Defaults?

Good question! The rom drives do not show or work but all my hard drives show and work fine.When I reset the Bios I have been preeing F5 to set it back to default which 99% of the time works.

Sorry I cannot open your attachment

What is the make and model of the computer?

Also did this just start happening? Was the computer working Okay previously?

Hi, This is what is in the attach, its a copy of my device manager. Yes this has just started and it was working fine before, the only thing I replaced was the rom drive as the last one broke. I have tried booting the computer without the new drive attached but it still will not reboot.The make of the computer!!not really sure as it was made by mesh I know its a asus dual core motherboard, but if you need the make i'll have to take the case apart.

Computer

ACPI Multiprocessor PC
Disk drives

Archos PC Hard Drive USB Device
Disk drive

Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device
Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device

Generic STORAGE DEVICE USB Device
Maxtor 6L300S0

ST3500630AS
ST3500641AS

ST3750840AS
Display adapters

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Floppy disk controllers

Standard floppy disk controller
Floppy disk drives

Floppy disk drive
Human Interface Devices

IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers

Imaging devices
Keyboards

Mice and other pointing devices
Monitors

Network adapters
NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator

Other devices
Multimedia Audio Controller

Portable Devices
Nokia N95 8GB

Ports (COM & LPT)
Processors

SCSI and RAID controllers
Sound, video and game controllers

Audio Codecs
Creative SB X-Fi

Legacy Audio Drivers
Legacy Video Capture Devices

Media Control Devices

System
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual

Core Processor 4800+
2.41 GHz, 3.00 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Try CPU_Z to ID the motherboard.

Mainboard > Model

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Sorry for our time warp but I'm in the US and only on line in the evenings.

What I would suggest is go to Asus driver page:

http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

Insert your particular model and reload the Chipset drivers.

Model A8N32-SLI-Delux
Hi Thanks for your reply, I tried reloading the drivers but still no luck. I could send you pictures of different pages of my Bios if this will help so you can see if any of the settings are wrong.I know I'm not an expert but I feel that it has something to do with the Rom/DVD drives as they never show up in the Bios and do not work all the time when I reboot. I would do a fresh install if I thought it would help but that would be impossible as the Rom drive does not always work......Any ideas????:idunno:

How are the DVD drives configured? Are they on the same channel?

If so are the jumpers set to Master / slave or Cable Select?

Have you tried booting with both DVD drives disconnected?

Also if they are on the same IDE channel try removing that cable from the motherboard.

Also verify the proper connection of this cable:

Blue end in motherboard > gray middle slave > black end master

It does not look to me like a Windows problem so reinstalling probably would not do anything anyway.