BIG Problem but I don't know what's wrong

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Ok, my computer has everything in my sig plus another CD Drive. For some reason, when I plug in both the DVD drive and the CD drive the computer restarts a couple of minutes after loading into windows and I have no idea why. However, if I unplug the power of one of these drives and then turn on my computer, lets just say I've done everything and anything you can think of with my computer for the last 10 hours without a single problem. Ok so I thought it was power supply problem. However, at this point I didn't have my Case fans plugged in (5 case fans). So, I plugged them in thinking it would have the same result as plugging in the other CD drive. To my suprise my computer has been running absolutly fine with the case fans. I have no idea what the hell is up with my computer. I mean I don't really care if I have the other CD drive plugged in or not it just bugs me that I have no idea what's wrong. Please help.

*On a side note* I just got my PSU refurbished because it was dying.
 
Does it give you a blue screen with a bug check before it reboots? It may flash very quickly.

If you can't see it, or it disappears too quick, do this to have the screen display before it reboots:

Right Click my computer, properties.
Go to advanced, and click on startup and recovery
Uncheck the box under system failure that says "automatically restart"
Reboot, and plug both drives in.

Wait and see if it restarts again, and this time if it DOES give you a bugcheck/BSOD, it will tell you what is wrong.

Post here what that screen says.

Could be an IRQ conflict. You're running XP I assume?
 
Many, including myself, have experienced problems with multiple optical drives when installing a second optical drive with the Nvidia IDE driver.

If you're using the Nvidia IDE driver, I'd suggest rolling back the IDE driver to the standard Windows IDE driver.

If you don't know how to roll back a driver, you can find instructions in Windows Help.

Hope this helps!
 
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