Question PC will not boot to desktop when DVD-ROM drive is connected ?

[joe sterling]

PC was able to boot with the DVD-ROM drive connected before, but now that my GPU is dying I switched to the onboard graphics. When I power on the PC with the DVD-ROM drive connected the display is stuck with the Gigabyte motherboard logo and it will not go past it, the keyboard is also unresponsive.

I've read that uninstalling ATA Channel 0 and ATA Channel 1 under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager might fix this? And or maybe wiping out it's registry in the Registry Editor? I'm just not sure if it's the fix.

 

[TerryLaze]

DVD drive has probably died since the last time you used it, you should test the dvd drive on a different system to make sure.

Or boot into Windows and then connect the dvd drive, if it will freeze if it's broken.

 

[JeffreyP55]

PC was able to boot with the DVD ROM connected before, but now that my GPU is dying I switched to the onboard graphics. When I power on the PC with the DVD ROM connected the display is stuck with the Gigabyte motherboard logo and it will not go past it, the keyboard is also unresponsive.

I've read that uninstalling ATA Channel 0 and ATA Channel 1 under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager might fix this? And or maybe wiping out it's registry in the Registry Editor? I'm just not sure if it's the fix.

Back to 39 years to 1986, IDE? I remember the old problem but forgot the fix. Like was said, the laser has died. Amazon has Optical drives for cheap but they are serial.
Time warp, please upgrade.
Out of curiosity, please list all of your PC components.

 

[Misgar]

When I power on the PC with the DVD-ROM drive connected the display is stuck with the Gigabyte motherboard logo and it will not go past it

I don't suppose the optical drive is the first device in the BIOS boot order list? The computer might be looking for a Windows installation DVD. More likely the drive has died. Plenty of cheap replacements still available. I bought another BD-R drive last summer.

My first CD Writer was an HP running on SCSI (Adaptec card). IDE came a bit later for me I seem to remember.

 

[DaleH]

PC was able to boot with the DVD-ROM drive connected before, but now that my GPU is dying I switched to the onboard graphics. When I power on the PC with the DVD-ROM drive connected the display is stuck with the Gigabyte motherboard logo and it will not go past it, the keyboard is also unresponsive.

I've read that uninstalling ATA Channel 0 and ATA Channel 1 under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers in Device Manager might fix this? And or maybe wiping out it's registry in the Registry Editor? I'm just not sure if it's the fix.

Did you remove the GPU?