a7n8x Deluxe - Optical Drives Master/Slave Problem

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Hi,

I'm a newbie and have a problem I just can't figure out. My system is:

a7n8x Deluxe
Primary IDE - Master 80GB HD
Slave 40GB HD
Secondary IDE Master TEAC CD RW
Slave Compaq (Panasonic) DVD
512 MB RAM
6600GT Graphics Card
AMD 2400+ XP
Win Xp Pro

My hard drives work fine as does my TEAC CD RW, but I can't get the DVD
to work as the slave on the second IDE. The TEAC is set to cable choice
and the DVD is set to Slave on the jumpers.

The DVD is getting power as I can open and close the draw. The BIOS is
picking up that something is running as the 2nd slave, but puts a
gibberish description when booting up.

Windows sometimes picks up that there is a new cd installed, but won't
let you read any kind of disk from it. It gives a message of "disk is
corrupt..." . Also rather stangely when you select eject for the CDRW
in windows, it opens the draws for both drives!!!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Bob

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"Bob Badger" <sjdavies47@hotmail.com> kirjoitti viestissä
news:1124797056.764127.33770@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie and have a problem I just can't figure out. My system is:
>
> a7n8x Deluxe
> Primary IDE - Master 80GB HD
> Slave 40GB HD
> Secondary IDE Master TEAC CD RW
> Slave Compaq (Panasonic) DVD
> 512 MB RAM
> 6600GT Graphics Card
> AMD 2400+ XP
> Win Xp Pro
>
> My hard drives work fine as does my TEAC CD RW, but I can't get the DVD
> to work as the slave on the second IDE. The TEAC is set to cable choice
> and the DVD is set to Slave on the jumpers.
>

That's the problem: you either have both set as master/slave (preferable) or
both as cable select, not mix'n'match :-)



> The DVD is getting power as I can open and close the draw. The BIOS is
> picking up that something is running as the 2nd slave, but puts a
> gibberish description when booting up.
>
> Windows sometimes picks up that there is a new cd installed, but won't
> let you read any kind of disk from it. It gives a message of "disk is
> corrupt..." . Also rather stangely when you select eject for the CDRW
> in windows, it opens the draws for both drives!!!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bob
>

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Thanks guys, I had to set the DVD to master and the TEAC to slave. The
BIOS picked it up straight away, and windows now shows both drives
correctly. The TEAC is still working fine, but I'm still have a few
probs with my DVD. It will read cds no probs, but when I put a dvd in
it looks like it is reading it up just hangs explorer...

Any ideas

Thanks
Bob

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Thanks guys for all the help, just as I was about to throw it out (and
just after downloading XP SP2) it suddenly started working......