REALLY BIG PROBLEM! please read and help..

oh wow

i dont want to sound rude, but i just have to say this. it almost sounds in this case that the computer needs to be taken to someone who is somehow qualified to work on them. there are alot of problems that you do not want to stumble through, and stumbling could make things worse. i am definately not trying to insult you as i myself have given up on certain things that were beyond me. in other cases i stumbled through it, and sometimes had a horrible end result. the other good part is that if you take your machine to a repair shop, they are liable, where as if you are working on someone's machine, and it suddenly dies in your hands, you are going to be expected to buy a new one, or replace it somehow. but i myself havent had problems like that since i was stumbling through it, and that was back in the less-than-10 meg hard disk/ pre-286 days. so anything i learned from those days wouldnt apply here.

unless.....
you somehow forgot to set the jumpers on the cd drive and hard disk that you replaced?.....Nah.
and also....

When I built my computer I pluged in ever thing, And installed windows 98 I never had to install drivers for my motherboard.

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this is also the same story i have, i have never had to install any drivers for my motherboard, except when i had a motherboard with onboard sound or video. if your motherboard has a driver disk, see what drivers it has, you may not need them at all.
it seems to me that if the machines freezes after you add the motherboard drivers, then try NOT adding them. as for the bad sectors, that disk is most likely shot, although i cant tell you why. it most likely sustained some sort of damage from the ide controller or something. through all of this have you checked to see if the power supply is ok? imaging your house running on half its needs of power. the pc will enter a "brown-out" condition and things will error alot. it may not even seem like it is having a problem, but the output voltage of each branch needs to be checked, especially the branches for the hard disk and motherboard. but as i said, i'd take a machine that new to a shop, or take it and throw it through the window of the store you bought it at. there is no excuse for a machine to come from a factory, out of a box, onto your desk, and then screw up in major proportions like you describe. and as far as the cd exploding in the drive, it must have been cracked or something to begin with, as i have spun a cd at 30,000 rpm in order to buff it, and the drive cant possibly be moving at more than 3,000 or so. i think it was probably cracked or chipped. anyways, i wish you luck on this problem, and dont let the company that made that machine bully you.

Chin up,

BoB

WELL...

There are two options for those BIG problems...
One, is that the power supply is bad or broken, so thats why my computer freeze, my Hard Drive with bas sectors and etc (all the problems... I don't want to detail again.. ITS NOT FUN :no: ).
The secund is that my mother board is not good / not configured like it should to be (Jumpers and etc)...
If I think about it, two of them together sounds like the problem.. so maybe the two of them are fuc*ked..

I have a working mother board and a working power supply in my home for backup, but there is a sticker behind the computer that said that if it will be cut, the warranty will be over... and it is between the computer 'door' to the case, so I cant open the computer and try to replace, and I cant remove the sticker and bring it back cause it is very attached...

So, this will be the third time I'm taking the computer to the company, and to tell you the truth, I spoke with one of their technician and he seemed to me like someone who know nothing..! I bet I know better than him.
But warranty meens CASH-FREE so I will have to take the computer again and hope next time it will be better.

Anyway, thanks for helping me, and when I will get it back (and hopefully it will work), I will try to post what happend and what been changed... (If I will find this post)
If you curious, you can e-mail me and leave your e-mail address and I will e-mail you..

Thank you.. see ya