PsioniC
12-24-2003, 12:53 AM
Ok so the problem is I have a CD-Rw and a DVD drive and neither seems to want to act as a slave to the other. For a long time everything worked fine and I had the CD-Rw as the primary and the DVD as the slave. About a year ago I updated to windows Xp from ME and all of a sudden my DVD drive stopped working 100% (sometimes when windows would boot, it would be detected and other times it wouldnt). This didnt really bother me because I dont really use my DVD drive that much anyways my CD-RW is faster so I use that for installing anything.
My System specs at that time:
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
Intel 850Gb
Geforce 3
256 Rd-Ram
400 Watt PS
(Everything else is that same as below)
Recently I was having some work done on my computer in the a shop. I added a new motherboard, Ram, processor and video card. When I went to pick up my computer the guy remarked to me that the DVD didnt like to be that slave to CD-Rw and that he had switched them. I thought great now both my drives will work. So I got it home and was loading on all my programes and games. I then popped a CD into my CD-Rw (now the slave to the DVD) all of a sudden all of my programs start to lock up and stop responding. When I go to the task manager and try and close some of the programs the task manager stops responding. At this point I just hit that start button and hit shut down, this wouldnt respond either, note: the whole time this is going on the CD-Rw wont stop spinning and always has the busy light blinking. So I just hit the power button powered down that way.
When I booted back into windows the computer started locking up and doing the exact same thing as before. So I opened my case and took the IDE cable and the power cable out of the the CD-RW and turned on the computer again. It
booted up fine.
Here are my system specs:
AMD 2800 XP (barton)
Asus A7N8X-X
512Mgs DDR-3200
CD-Rw (HP Cd-Writer CD 12 series 48X/24X/12X <--- I think!)
DVD (Pioneer 16X)
Geforce FX 5900
450 Watt Enermax
40 gig Seagate
P.S. something to note whenever windows Xp tried to auto-setup which ever drive was fuctioning as the salve it would always display the name of the drive all messed up for instance what should be Pioneer 16X DVD-Rom looked like PoNeaR 1-2-6X DwD-Ram so i was think the problem might be the IDE cables they are 2 years old :confused:
My System specs at that time:
Intel Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz
Intel 850Gb
Geforce 3
256 Rd-Ram
400 Watt PS
(Everything else is that same as below)
Recently I was having some work done on my computer in the a shop. I added a new motherboard, Ram, processor and video card. When I went to pick up my computer the guy remarked to me that the DVD didnt like to be that slave to CD-Rw and that he had switched them. I thought great now both my drives will work. So I got it home and was loading on all my programes and games. I then popped a CD into my CD-Rw (now the slave to the DVD) all of a sudden all of my programs start to lock up and stop responding. When I go to the task manager and try and close some of the programs the task manager stops responding. At this point I just hit that start button and hit shut down, this wouldnt respond either, note: the whole time this is going on the CD-Rw wont stop spinning and always has the busy light blinking. So I just hit the power button powered down that way.
When I booted back into windows the computer started locking up and doing the exact same thing as before. So I opened my case and took the IDE cable and the power cable out of the the CD-RW and turned on the computer again. It
booted up fine.
Here are my system specs:
AMD 2800 XP (barton)
Asus A7N8X-X
512Mgs DDR-3200
CD-Rw (HP Cd-Writer CD 12 series 48X/24X/12X <--- I think!)
DVD (Pioneer 16X)
Geforce FX 5900
450 Watt Enermax
40 gig Seagate
P.S. something to note whenever windows Xp tried to auto-setup which ever drive was fuctioning as the salve it would always display the name of the drive all messed up for instance what should be Pioneer 16X DVD-Rom looked like PoNeaR 1-2-6X DwD-Ram so i was think the problem might be the IDE cables they are 2 years old :confused: