Hey guys,
 
Here are my system specs:
 
P4 1.8 GHZ
512 MB SDRAM (PC 133)
40 GB HDD (set as Primary Master)
16 ASUS DVD-Rom (Set as primary Slave)
12x8x32 CD-RW (Set as Seconday Master)
Radeon 7200 64 MD SDRAM AGP
Windows XP Pro w/SP1 installed
 
Every once and a while, my comp will freeze and I lose the CD-RW. I've changed IDE cables, re-installed the the hardware (through the add hardware in XP), hell, I've re-installed from scratch. This same issue happened on my old machine and now I am thinking that it is hardware issue with the CD-RW, and not my machine, but I don't know for sure.
 
Has anyone else every seen or experienced this? I had read somewhere that Nero (which is what I used) would cause the device to disappear in XP, so I removed it but the issue persists.
 
Also, I have noticed that when I go to reboot my machine after installing something like a Windows Update, my comp goes through the BIOS checks and then hangs when trying to load XP. It seems that the HDD is constantly accessed when rebooting, and I suspect that this is the problem, but I have no idea how to fix it.
 
If anyone has ever had this issue, help would be greatly appreciated on how to rectify these problems.
 
Thanks in advance.