problem reading/burning DVD/CD

joebeemish · Apr 20, 2006, 05:24 AM

I hooked up a NEC ND-3550A on IDE using the 80 conductor/40 pin IDE cable at the middle connector on the primary IDE. My only hard drive is on SATA. The DVD/CD drive is the master, no slave present. Read operations "freeze", like nero reads and windows media player. CD burning has a very low success rate. I didn't try DVD. I then bought a BENQ DW1655. Same problem. I then connected the drive to to the end connector on the IDE - no improvement. I have bios 201. Any tips? ( I am able to read data CD's and data DVD's).

PangingJr · Apr 20, 2006, 09:21 AM

the middle connector of the cable is for Slave setting device,
the end connector of the same cable for Master device.

first, remove Nero software and then shutdown and turn off your computer.

then reset the new BENQ drive's jumper to Master and connect it to the end connector of the IDE cable, leave the other end connector at the same IDE controller. also recheck all cables.

leave the old NEC drive out for now, as for testing.

then restart your computer and reinstall the Nero, and try again, and see what happens?

joebeemish · Apr 21, 2006, 01:55 AM

Did all that - still no improvement.

PangingJr · Apr 21, 2006, 05:50 AM

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Originally Posted by joebeemish

Did all that - still no improvement.

you might want to verify whether or not the same problems still exist after you have done a clean install of the Windows and rest of software on the system. remember, you want to leave all Windows settings at defualt at the time of checking on this.
If problems still exist then it is time to move onto hardware diagnosis.

PangingJr · Apr 25, 2006, 07:10 AM

How's it going?

joebeemish · Apr 25, 2006, 05:31 PM

The problem was that the IDE device driver was set to PIO only. I don't know why. I changed it to DMA and all started working properly. Thanks for the follow up.

Apr 20, 2006, 05:24 AM	#1
joebeemish DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	problem reading/burning DVD/CD I hooked up a NEC ND-3550A on IDE using the 80 conductor/40 pin IDE cable at the middle connector on the primary IDE. My only hard drive is on SATA. The DVD/CD drive is the master, no slave present. Read operations "freeze", like nero reads and windows media player. CD burning has a very low success rate. I didn't try DVD. I then bought a BENQ DW1655. Same problem. I then connected the drive to to the end connector on the IDE - no improvement. I have bios 201. Any tips? ( I am able to read data CD's and data DVD's). __________________ ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, Athlon 4400+, Corsair 2-2-2-5 1GB Mem, ATI X1900XT video, Enermax 620 P/S, Antec P-180 case, Maxtor dimondmax 300GB - SATA 150.

Apr 21, 2006, 01:55 AM	Thread Starter #3
joebeemish DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Did all that - still no improvement. __________________ ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, Athlon 4400+, Corsair 2-2-2-5 1GB Mem, ATI X1900XT video, Enermax 620 P/S, Antec P-180 case, Maxtor dimondmax 300GB - SATA 150.

Apr 25, 2006, 05:31 PM	Thread Starter #6
joebeemish DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	The problem was that the IDE device driver was set to PIO only. I don't know why. I changed it to DMA and all started working properly. Thanks for the follow up. __________________ ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, Athlon 4400+, Corsair 2-2-2-5 1GB Mem, ATI X1900XT video, Enermax 620 P/S, Antec P-180 case, Maxtor dimondmax 300GB - SATA 150.

Apr 20, 2006, 09:21 AM	#2
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	the middle connector of the cable is for Slave setting device, the end connector of the same cable for Master device. first, remove Nero software and then shutdown and turn off your computer. then reset the new BENQ drive's jumper to Master and connect it to the end connector of the IDE cable, leave the other end connector at the same IDE controller. also recheck all cables. leave the old NEC drive out for now, as for testing. then restart your computer and reinstall the Nero, and try again, and see what happens?

Apr 25, 2006, 07:10 AM	#5
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 69	How's it going?