CD-RW and DVD-Rom not wanting to be a slave

[PsioniC]

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

[bailey]

I had the same type of thing happening, so I got a promise controler card and put all my hard drives on it and my cdrw and dvdrw on the two ide ports and the motherboard as master, and the cd, dvd rom drives as the slaves.
been working great that way

[morriswindgate]

Go to the Device manager and check under the Secondary IDE atapi controller that both drives are set for DMA Mode

[PsioniC]

It's set to DMA if available I assume thats what you mean. For the post 2 above I couldnt really understand what you were trying to say.. could you try and clean that up please? thanks