Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > DVD/CD Writers > DVD burner shows at start up, later disappears

DVD burner shows at start up, later disappears

Forum Storage : DVD/CD Writers - DVD burner shows at start up, later disappears

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply
Word :    Username :           
 
layneteague   08-20-2009 at 02:18:34 AM

I have an IDE DVD Rom and a DVD Burner, both set to cable select, burner connected as slave. BIOS shows both. Start up W7RC and both show. Next day burner does not show on computer nor on system page. Restart and both show, same drill. This was the same when I was running Vista Basic. I have changed cable and swapped burner with a known good one of same model (LG). Ultra case, power supply with XFX mobo. Lite-On DVDROM. Suggestions?

Add a reply
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
Bronze Storage badge r_manic   08-20-2009 at 05:10:56 AM

Try a set of new IDE cables. There might be some problems with the ones you use now.

------------------------------ Desktop | E7300 | P5KPL-AM | 2GB DDR2 667MHz | NVIDIA 9500 GT | ST3320613AS | w2228h
XPS M1330 | T8300 | Dell 0U8042 | 2GB DDR2 800MHz | NVIDIA 8400M GS | WD2500BEVS-75US | 1280 x 800
 Reply to r_manic
layneteague   08-20-2009 at 05:56:22 PM

I have changed from the flat cable XFX provided to the round type and back with no change. I might pull the cable out of my other comuter that works and try that.
Thanks

Reply to layneteague
layneteague   08-23-2009 at 09:13:14 PM

Ultra tells me the round cable will not support cable select so I set the jumpers. Same result. I then swapped the drives around withe Burner master. Everything seems to show now. Suggestions?

Reply to layneteague
layneteague   09-02-2009 at 02:57:26 AM

Any suggestions as to why I can't use the DVDROM as the Master?

Reply to layneteague
layneteague   09-12-2009 at 07:19:44 AM

Been two weeks and the system works fine with the DVD burner as master (remember I took this burner out of another computer where it worked fine as a slave) and the DVDROM as slave. When the positions are reversed with no other changes, the DVD Burner disappears completely after about a day untill a reboot. Anyone ever see this problem? Thanks.

Reply to layneteague
vereman   11-16-2009 at 09:19:59 AM

I have the same problem. I have 2 DVD drives, running Windows 7, and they both appear at startup, and works normally, then disappear after about 1 hr. I have them both set at CS so I will try the master/slave setup and see if the problem goes away.

Message quoted 1 times
Reply to vereman
layneteague   11-16-2009 at 05:58:42 PM

CS didn't work either for me, only works with burner as master

Reply to layneteague
layneteague   11-26-2009 at 08:32:25 PM

vereman wrote :

I have the same problem. I have 2 DVD drives, running Windows 7, and they both appear at startup, and works normally, then disappear after about 1 hr. I have them both set at CS so I will try the master/slave setup and see if the problem goes away.


Did it work when you made the change? Doesn't for me.

Reply to layneteague
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Storage > DVD/CD Writers > DVD burner shows at start up, later disappears
Go to:

There are 836 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.373 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them