I have an aol optimized systemax and a friend added a dvd drive to it. The puter would lock up and my son would turn it off and back on. It comes up with the aol optimized screen and then goes to a black and white screen that has a bunch of information on it. In the middle of the screen it says Pri. Master Disk HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability....Disabled and at the very bottom the last line is Verifying DMI Pool Data..... At this point it just sits now.
I was told by customer support that I had either something loose or my hard drive was going bad. I replaced the hard drive and it is still the same. I have checked every connection I could find and it all appears tight.
I was told by a second person my video card was not big enough to support the dvd drive and I do have a new one but have not installed it.
The second person also had me boot the system from the systemax disk and reload windows and it acts like it does and takes me through the steps but then ends up at the black and white screen.
Does anyone know what could cause it to do this other than the loose connection or hard drive? Or if it is a loose connection, which one could it be?
One last thing, if I hit delete on the aol screen it will let me go into set up but once I am there my keyboard is dead. I have tried two different keyboards, one of which is a usb connection.
Thank you all for your help.