Liteon 40x12x48 detection

[RIP]

Can somebody please help me. My problem is my computer is sometimes unstable. Sometimes it restarts and sometimes it hangs. One time I tried to burn but when I started to choose the data files to burn it hang. Then I restarted then its ok and able to burn. One time when I started the computer the screen logo is small and some games are small in diameter not full screen. I tried to isolate each component then I noticed that the Liteon cdrw drive took a longer time to be detected during booting but without it its a breeze. Could it be the cause? I also noticed that the 12 volt rail of the power supply is 12.83. Is it too high?

[Oleg]

This means some hardware Is bad could be CDRW drive.

[RIP]

What hardware can it be? Is it the power supply, having 12.83v on the 12v rail? Is it too high that the CDRW drive went nuts?

I removed the drive and so far, no hangs. Luckily, I didn't erased my previous windows installation. The last windows installation (on a separate drive) was somewhat unstable. Probably because I used the drive in installing.

[Oleg]

What hardware can it be? Is it the power supply, having 12.83v on the 12v rail? Is it too high that the CDRW drive went nuts?

I removed the drive and so far, no hangs. Luckily, I didn't erased my previous windows installation. The last windows installation (on a separate drive) was somewhat unstable. Probably because I used the drive in installing.

Could be hard drive If you removed it and everything works you got bad hard drive than.

[bill]

I don't think you posted enough information. If you don't mind me asking

1-Is this a new computer that you built?
2-Was the computer stable and able to write cd's in the past?
3-Did you install a new hard drive?
4-Did you install any other hardware just prior to having problems?
5-Does the computer reboot before Windows loads?
6- Do you get any error messages from Windows?
7-Does the computer reboot when your doing a specific task?
8-You mentioned the hard drive and cdrw, do you have any other drives installed?
9-Did you make any changes to the bios just prior to having problems?

12.83 volts is about 7% high....most folks would like to see 5% or less. How did you find the voltage?