My Equium A300D freezes at BIOS

Anyone help with this one?
My Equium A300d originally froze at the Bios splash screen.I eventually replaced both the ram and hdd but still the same problem. By trial and error i discovered that the problem was the dvd drive.......remove it and the system loads fine, put it back in and back to the freeze at bios!
I replaced the dvd drive wiith a new compatible drive but same result so assume the actual hardware is not the problem so can only assume a motherboard problem?
Anyone come across this scenario? thanks for looking.

Hi - thanks for your response.
The Bios is Phoenix V2.10
OS is Windows XP
Your understanding is correct....without the dvd drive in,XP loads fine.
If i then put in the dvd drive nothing happens....no spinning of the drive, no drive light flashing, no system messages.
I don't think its a driver problem as the dvd drive should be picked up using the generic windows driver anyway.Still suspect some sort of power problem on the mobo-but just for the dvd?..... hope not as i'm u/s with mobo's!

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