i have put the dvd drive back in and rebooted dvd drive is now working. reinstalled windows Xp and installed SP2. still had same problem when booting up. re: windows hanging on the xp logo but could get past this with another reboot. a couple of times when i pressed the off button a blue screen appeared briefly with a message looked like( DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_EQUAL.
windows had to shut down to protect pc) but it was to quick to get all the message. but it know seems to be working Ok other than that.
