2 Cd Drives, 2 Different problems...

[Psyke]

Hi Guys.

My Pc has 1 CD-RW drive, and 1 CD-ROM drive.

Just recently both have been giving me problems, and both at around the same time.

The CD-ROM will not read discs at all, the LED on the drive lights up when a cd is put in, but it will not read it.
And if you try and access the drive from explorer the system will freeze up.

The CD-RW has an entirely different problem, it will read the FIRST cd that is put in when the system starts up, but if you try and swap an different CD in afterwards, it will still pick up the FIRST cd as being in the drive...And nothing can be accessed from the drive.

Upon restarting the machine, the CD-RW is functional again for the first cd that is put in...

Something is going on this pc, i'm thinking it might be the IDE controller on the motherboard since both drives are showing problems..

Any ideas/comments?

 

[franklin97355]

Take one out and test the remaining one. Might be a bad cable but test the drives seperately first.

 

[kmcferrin]

Definitely test them separately. If one of them is bad, it could be causing problems with the other.

Also, are they both on the same IDE channel? If so, are they set as master/slave or cable select, or a combination? I always recommend that one be jumpered as master and the other as slave, no matter what. Sometimes CS doesn't work so well. Also, if they are jumpered master and slave, but they each test out OK separately, they reversing the master/slave roles. Some drives don't like other drives as master.