Ok, last night, I don't know how, my CD burner, burned out. I wasn't even using it or any CD burning software, nor were there any discs inside when outta nowhere the LED started flashing red like it was burning a disc, then I noticed a burnt smell, then it went off and died.
So I shutdown the PC, open the case and there is indeed a bit of smoke and a stronger burnt smell. The CD burner doesn't work or even turns on, but the regular CD rom does. Now even though there seems to be nothing wrong with the PC as it runs fine, I notice that it takes a long ass time to get windows started, in fact it stays on the "Intel P4" boot up screen for a good minute and a half until it goes on and starts running fine. That didn't happen before.
Now I know I have to replace the CD burner but my question is, did the burner shorting out cause any harm to my motherboard or to Windows itself? Like I said, everything runs fine, except for the fact the burner is dead and that slow boot up thing that didn't use to take so long.
Any help would be appreciated.
So I shutdown the PC, open the case and there is indeed a bit of smoke and a stronger burnt smell. The CD burner doesn't work or even turns on, but the regular CD rom does. Now even though there seems to be nothing wrong with the PC as it runs fine, I notice that it takes a long ass time to get windows started, in fact it stays on the "Intel P4" boot up screen for a good minute and a half until it goes on and starts running fine. That didn't happen before.
Now I know I have to replace the CD burner but my question is, did the burner shorting out cause any harm to my motherboard or to Windows itself? Like I said, everything runs fine, except for the fact the burner is dead and that slow boot up thing that didn't use to take so long.
Any help would be appreciated.
