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Jan Zizka · 09-08-2005, 09:42 AM

For everyone's info,

I just built a brand new system consisting of: ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe, Athlon FX57, 1 GB Memory, Hitachi SATA II HDD, Plextor 716A DVD Drive, Plextor 716 SA DVD Drive.

Everything worked great until I tested the SATA DVD drive (716SA) and when it tried to read a CD it would lock my system completely, Ctrl-Alt-Del would not even free it.

The solution was simple, I went into the Nvidia controller setting and selected the secondary channel where this DVD drive resided and set the transfre rate to PIO mode.

This advise was given to me by Plextor's tech support and the drive works great now.

09-08-2005, 09:42 AM	#14
Jan Zizka Member (5 bit) Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 18	SATA DVD Drive For everyone's info, I just built a brand new system consisting of: ASUS A8N SLI Deluxe, Athlon FX57, 1 GB Memory, Hitachi SATA II HDD, Plextor 716A DVD Drive, Plextor 716 SA DVD Drive. Everything worked great until I tested the SATA DVD drive (716SA) and when it tried to read a CD it would lock my system completely, Ctrl-Alt-Del would not even free it. The solution was simple, I went into the Nvidia controller setting and selected the secondary channel where this DVD drive resided and set the transfre rate to PIO mode. This advise was given to me by Plextor's tech support and the drive works great now.