DVD Problems

[wetbehindears]

My OS is XP Home. I recently purchased an NEC DVD burner. When I installed it I set the jumper to master and set my regular Samsung DVD player to slave. Upon checking the drives I found the original Samsung did not read a disc of any kind. I’m afraid I can’t remember the last time I used the Samsung, but it was working the last time I did. I checked the recourses in Device Manager for IRQ conflicts and also checked Bios to make sure it was enabled. I switched the two drives around on the EIDE cable and changed the jumpers to match their positions. I still got nothing out of the Samsung, but the NEC worked fine with whatever setting I had it in. I pulled the NEC out and left just the Samsung DVD in on the secondary master cable with the jumper set to master. Still it would not read any disc, DVD or CD. I put the Samsung in a windows 98 machine I have and it did not work in that computer either. I placed the old CD burner and the NEC DVD burner in my XP computer. NEC DVD drive as master and CD burner as slave. Both of them work fine. Is there any reason the two DVD drives would not work together? At this point I’m assuming the Samsung DVD has gone bad. It did not work in the XP computer nor in the win 98 machine. Is there any other way I should test it before I scrap it?

[Ob1]

sounds to me like the drive is broken.

good job troubleshooting, i would of taken the same steps

[glc]

Samsung optical drives have never been noted for their long term reliability. I'd agree that yours has probably gone south.

[Iniamyen]

Just for the heck of it, try all possible combinations, but set the jumpers to cable select.

[wetbehindears]

Thank you all for your response. I did order another drive. I went with the Lite-On brand. I‘ve read some good things in the forum lately about them.