DVD damaged reading after mobo drivers install

[ricardoserpell]

Hi everyone,

I just built a new PC with:

Athlon 64 3200+ (venice)
Abit AN8 NF4
512 Mb OCZ high performance RAM dual channel (2x256)
Abit Radeon X300 SE guru
160 Gb western digital 7200 rpm SATA HDD
Liteon DVD 16x recorder
ASUS chasis

After assembling everything I installed windows 2000 professional from the DVD-drive (I used the SATA drivers supplied in a diskette to instal directly to the SATA drive).

After w2000 started for the first time I changed the cd to install drivers for the NF4 chipset and rebooted...

The DVD drive stoped reading anything from then on. What's worst it doesn't work on other PC I test it on.

Changed the drive at the store (after all this things do fail), I brought home a LG DVD recorder this time (I already have one identical working in my other PC).

Installed it... nothing, same problem. The tray opens, the lights go on and off, but the discs can't be read. Tried the drive on my other PC... not working either.

What's wrong, is my mobo/chasis killing cd/dvd drives?

I should say the rest of the PC is working pretty well....

anybody heard of something like this before?

Any help would be welcomed...

Ricardo.

[Dark Nova]

are you sure that the dvd driver is compatible with w2000?

[ricardoserpell]

Originally Posted by Dark Nova are you sure that the dvd driver is compatible with w2000?

Yes, I'm sure I'm using the exact same drive in my other PC that is also running windows 2000 pro SP4.

And also, I think windows XP is not any different from windows 2000, appart from the bells and whistles (I think XP SP2 does change something really)

I'd like to try my older drive (the one that is working on my pc) in the new pc, but I'm frightened it will be killed too.

thanks anyway.

[bailey]

there are no drivers needed for a optical drive.
I belive that the drive just went bad on its own,call the supplier for replacement.

[Dark Nova]

my god, your right there is no drivers for dvd drives. my bad

[ricardoserpell]

Originally Posted by bailey there are no drivers needed for a optical drive. I belive that the drive just went bad on its own,call the supplier for replacement.

Yes, that's what I thought, but what about the second one, it does fail in the same way as the first one, the tray opens, but windows can't tell there is a disc inside.

I think it is the drive that isn't able to tell there is a disc inside, but somehow for the first drive this started to happen just after I installed windows (from the same drive, I mean it read discs before that) and the drivers for the NF4 chipset (I seem to remember I also installed them from the same dvd drive), and to the second drive (the replacement from the supplier) inmediatle after plugging the drive to the PC.

PLEASE HELP BEFORE I DAMAGE ANOTHER NEW ONE

Ricardo.

[bailey]

I do not belive that there is any way you can damage a cdrom drive by installing software to your computer with it, it just can't be done.
doing what your are doing is what it was designed to do, thats what they are for, and doing that cannot cause any kind of harm to them.

[rjfvillarosa]

If this is a new build then a format and reinstall of Windows shouldn't be a problem.
It's possible that the chipset drivers you installed are causing your problem, format the hard drive and reinstall Windows and check the drive BEFORE reinstalling the chipset drivers, it won't be the first time a mobo driver set has caused me problems.

[ricardoserpell]

Thanks everyone for your help

Finally the culprit was the power source of the case, someway it managed to ruin two dvd-burner drives and almost my old cd burner (it didn't work in the new computer but was back at work in the old computer after some very tense moments) just because it wasn't powerfull enough. I replaced it with a 420W thermaltake powersource and the new dvd-burner (a third one) worked ok.

Who would have thought of that...

Well thanks again.

Bye.