Tyan Tiger I7505 (S2668ANR) and CDs

[Davius]

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Tyan Tiger i7505 (S2668ANR) Motherboard, 2 X Xeon 3GHz Processors, 2Gb RAM,
4 X 160Gb HDDs (2 S-ATA & 2 IDE), Asus GF FX5200 128Mb AGP, 16X DVD, FDD.
All in all a beast!

Here's an odd one. Installed Windows XP Pro, went in fine. Inserted the
Motherboard Driver Disk which auto ran and displayed the menu. Selected the
Intel .inf file update which went in and requested reboot. Rebooted.

Now the PC can't read CDs properly in the DVD-ROM Drive. When inserting a
data CD (including the Windows XP disk) it trys to run it as an audio CD,
displaying Media Player and fails with an unknown format error. When right
clicking on the drive and displaying properties it lists the CD as 0bytes
and when opening it lists just a blank track. I've inserted several CDs, all
display the same.

Is there a known issue with the .inf update for the i7505? I resinstalled
Windows following repartitioning and it works fine, but if you don't run the
..inf update a couple of system devices remain with the non working
exclamation. Installing the .inf following Video, Sound, Gigabit LAN, etc
reproduces the same problem, the DVD-ROM drive is unusable.

Tried calling the Tyan UK support number, message stating that the guy is
away until next week and suggesting their customer calls Germany.

Davius

 

[Davius]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan (More info?)

Follow up:

The problem was caused by the DVD-ROM Drive, an Artec 16X drive, switching
to an Artec CD-Rewriter or Samsung Combo drive fixed the problem. Presumably
there is some incompatibility between the Intel IDE driver and the Artec
drive.

"Davius" <dccs@btconnect.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Tyan Tiger i7505 (S2668ANR) Motherboard, 2 X Xeon 3GHz Processors, 2Gb
RAM,
> 4 X 160Gb HDDs (2 S-ATA & 2 IDE), Asus GF FX5200 128Mb AGP, 16X DVD, FDD.
> All in all a beast!
>
> Here's an odd one. Installed Windows XP Pro, went in fine. Inserted the
> Motherboard Driver Disk which auto ran and displayed the menu. Selected
the
> Intel .inf file update which went in and requested reboot. Rebooted.
>
> Now the PC can't read CDs properly in the DVD-ROM Drive. When inserting a
> data CD (including the Windows XP disk) it trys to run it as an audio CD,
> displaying Media Player and fails with an unknown format error. When right
> clicking on the drive and displaying properties it lists the CD as 0bytes
> and when opening it lists just a blank track. I've inserted several CDs,
all
> display the same.