This issue could be caused by a weakened or underpowered power supply. 
The drive starting up could be the proverbial "straw that broke the 
camel's back".

Just a thought.

Tom

Darrell Dunn wrote:
> Ok, first off its a desktop. I am running xp home, it is a whitebox 
> with a 1.4 mhz processor 512 mb ram. I have changed the drive, and 
> cables. I  have uninstalled and reinstalled the drive. it shuts down 
> whenever I  put a cd in (any kind, game, write or blank) and the 
> computer will not start up untill I  pull the cd. It just keeps 
> shutting down, starts to start up and then shuts down again. I am 
> wondering if my motherboard is going out? or could it be the internal 
> battery? thanks again.
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