Pure3D 0 Posted February 4, 2000 I have P3-500, 128MB, Voodoo3, 56K MODEM, Diamond MX300, and a Adaptec SCSI 2906 card, 1 CDROM(IDE), 1 CD Burner(SCSI). I am running win2k. My system runs all fine but then when I powered off my system, disconnected my SCSI burner(the only SCSI device in my system), and powered up the system again, upon loading win2k, like at the nice GUI screen, it gave me a BSOD saying something like this: X_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED it told me to reboot if its the first time i saw this error, and when i rebooted, it still came back. Then the message goes on saying to disable my motherboard cache stuff and like things like shadowing. I have all those disabled. Still won't work, until one day today, i powered up my system again, and woohoo!, no BSOD. Anyone know why the hell it does this? Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted February 4, 2000 How did yu "disconnect" the SCSI burner? Did you unplug the cable from the back of the burner, or from the card? I would bet the former, and a dangling, unterminated SCSI cable will cause you problems... Either remove the cable altogether, or plug it back in... ------------------ SuperMicro P6DBS (dual UW-SCSI) BIOS 2.2, 2*Celery 300a @ 450Mhz, 384MB PC100 RAM SCSI-A=4.3Gb+9Gb, SCSI-B=Tosh32x CD-ROM, Yamaha4416 CD-RW, Iomega ZIP100, IDE1=4.3Gb IBM EtherJet 10/100 NIC PCI + Nortel ADSL "modem" CL TNT1 AGP + Quantum3D Voodoo2 SLI PCI SoundBlaster Live PCI (not Value) Win2K build 2195 120-day eval Share this post Link to post
Pure3D 0 Posted February 5, 2000 Hello! Thanks for replying..i just unplugged the SCSI cable from the back of the SCSI Burner and left one end of the cable attached to the SCSI card and left the other end unattached! When I booted up, got a BSOD. When I reconnected the cable to the SCSI Burner, no BSOD. What is wrong? Are you saying I have to "terminate" the SCSI card as well? so therefore, disconnect the SCSI ribbon from the SCSI cable as well? Share this post Link to post
YuppieScum 0 Posted February 5, 2000 SCSI temination is something of an arcane art, but basically... A signal pushed down a SCSI wire will bounce off the end if there is no termination. So, if you want to disconnect the CD device, unplug it from the card, not the device. Share this post Link to post
