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Hi all, i've just finished building my new rig this weekend but ran into a problem last night. After reformatting and loading windows back i inserted the driver for my new motherboard, the drive started as normal but nothing happen. When i right clicked on the dvd rom in my computer it freezes until i take the disc out of the drive. I looked at the drive and windows says everything is fine and running ok. What advice can you give, thx.
What motherboard, dvd rom? Is DMA on, check in device manager
Motherboard is : EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 NF680i SLI, S775, PCI-E(x16), DDR2 533/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
DVD rom : Pioneer (not sure which because i'm at work at the moment)
not sure what you mean by DMA, Direct memory access? if so sorry i don't know where that would be found. I have had a look in device manager and it says that it's working fine.
Is the DVD drive SATA ?
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Originally Posted by djfluff
No it's not m8
does it do it with cd and dvds, you can check via device manager/ide/ata controllers as to the dma/pio status
Ah did you install the nvidia ide drivers? If so, uninstall them, uninstall the dvd-rom from device manager and reboot
Hi, no i didn't install the drivers because the drive won't run any disc's at all. It's either something i've got wrong in Bios or that ive connected the leads wrong on the motherboard and the drivers, the mobo book told me that blue goes to motherboard, black goes to master drive and gray goes to slave. Iwasn't sure if the book was maybe wrong?Quote:
Originally Posted by Max Tractor
A little update from last night, i changed the dvd drive for my old cd/dvd reader, it did the same thing but just said insert disc into D:. I changed back to the dvd drive and typed D:\autorun and after a while came up with something like dvd drive conflicting with O/I Device. Please guys i need some big help here cause its gonna be another week before i can find the time to take it to a shop for them to look at.
Is the drive set to Master/Slave/CS ? Is there anything else on the IDE cable ?
Hi, the IDE cable is connected to the motherboard (blue end) then it runs to my HD which is set as master (black end) then from there it goes to the dvd read/burner (gray end). I know that it's something and nothing but i just can't put my finger on it. Should it be setup different in the Bios because it says Master (0) hard drive name then Slave (0) dvd drive name.Quote:
Originally Posted by djfluff
You really should keep HDDs and Optical drives on different IDE cables if you can.
Try running the DVDrom on a different cable, that may fix it
Hi, i would do but i think this motherboard only has one port :s i know that sounds stupid but the rest seem to be just SATA i have the white slot which is for the power and the blue which is for the IDE cable the rest are like i say SATA. Motherboard is ...Quote:
Originally Posted by s_kinton
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=491417
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=7257&page=2
edit: an update, i've asked the wife to nip and buy a SATA dvd rom. Hopefully this will solve it.
Is the dvd set to slave or cs? (it may show up as slave in bios, even when set to cs)
If it is set to slave , you could try cs..
yeah the dvd is slave i tried both slave, cs oh and i tried it without the pin altogether and still no joy :(Quote:
Originally Posted by djfluff
Just a thought, do you have any software like nero's virtual drive software installed?
no m8 it's a reformat on a drive that didn't have nero or any virtual drives on it. It's just got windows xp and thats all. The wife has let me know she's bought a SATA dvd rom so i'm gonna try that tonight when i get home. Any tips on installing it would be handy, do i need to change anything in Bios or just leave it as auto.
SATA drives are dead easy. Just p'np' :)
It's all fixed :D it must have been a conflict with the old dvd rom. I bought a SATA rom and everythings running great, thx for your help.