Hello all, My cd-drive is behaving weirdly when I insert a cd-rom in it.It reacts in any of the following ways: System hangs Display garbles + system hangs System turns off immediately Runs normally! Also sometimes the system doesn't turn on when I press the power/reset button.Then I will off and on the UPS then the system turns on before I press the power button. Sometimes the system turns on upon pressing the power button,hardisk activity seems to happen ,but nothing not-even "POST "messages come up and the CPU fan keeps rotating.the leds(power+hdd)continue glowing. Another strange thing that I notice is that :When the system boots up sometimes the modem(serial) has two leds glowing and sometimes only one led glowing(I guess 1 led means proper initialization).These leds are control signals for the modem.CT,...and not power / anything else(venus modem) Im unable to figure out the faulty hardware section.But once when I tried to copy some content from the cd to hdd in linux I recv. the following error messages: hdd:command error:status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekComplete Error} hdd:command error:error=0x54 After those error messages the system got stuck.Then I restarted the m/c and the /var/log/messages showed the following two messages at two different times: kernel:hda:hda:dma_intr:status=0x51 {Drive Ready SeekComplete Error} kernel:hda:dma_intr:error=0x84 {Drive StatusError Bad CRC} I guess there is some system initialization problem. or DMA problem(last 2 messages} Please help me in this aspect.Any way to debug further and diagnose and corner the faulty section? Thanks in advance. kaushal. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html