Have a problem and wondering if anyone can help! I've narrowed it down to the cd-rom, whether it's a motherboard issue or actual cd-rom i don't know.
I have purchased a Chaintech 7NJL6 motherboard... installed my old athlon xp 1700+ cpu, no problem, 256mb ram ddr, no problem, new 120 gb hard drive, and a CW038D CD-RW.
The CD-RW was in my recent computer that i transferred over and was working fine, but used rarely as i have a DVDRW/CDRW combo.
I put in the new motherboard, RAM, Harddrive, Videocard etc.. and i couldn't originally boot windows. I put it into my existing system and installed windows... everything worked fine. I tried to install all the motherboard drivers and could not access the CDRW, if i did happen to get in it was extremely difficult in reading the disk in the drive (not only one disk, all disks) and took forever to install. I ended up going on-line to get all the drivers. Loaded the system again and it froze. Unhooked the IDE on the CD-RW and everything worked quick and very well. Hooked it back up.. slow and couldn't read disks. I ended up actually flashing the bios on the CD-RW, (didn't even know that could be done) but that did nothing. I have the drive set-up on IDE0, as a slave... i also tried setting it up as a master on the IDE1. It seems to be reading the disk at a high speed then stop,,,, then read it again, then stop.. this is highly frustrating and have run out of options.
Could it be the CDRW drive? I have used it in the past.. (not very often) in my other computer and it hasn't really seemd to be a problem. In device manager it is also saying that the device is working properly.
I tried installing an old CREATIVE CDROM (4x) but have the same issues with that.. it is an old drive so i can understand that. This is why i think it may be a motherboard issue. Two drives to do the same thing.. unlikely.
Any help would be more than appreciated.. working on this for quite some time now.
Quentin
I have purchased a Chaintech 7NJL6 motherboard... installed my old athlon xp 1700+ cpu, no problem, 256mb ram ddr, no problem, new 120 gb hard drive, and a CW038D CD-RW.
The CD-RW was in my recent computer that i transferred over and was working fine, but used rarely as i have a DVDRW/CDRW combo.
I put in the new motherboard, RAM, Harddrive, Videocard etc.. and i couldn't originally boot windows. I put it into my existing system and installed windows... everything worked fine. I tried to install all the motherboard drivers and could not access the CDRW, if i did happen to get in it was extremely difficult in reading the disk in the drive (not only one disk, all disks) and took forever to install. I ended up going on-line to get all the drivers. Loaded the system again and it froze. Unhooked the IDE on the CD-RW and everything worked quick and very well. Hooked it back up.. slow and couldn't read disks. I ended up actually flashing the bios on the CD-RW, (didn't even know that could be done) but that did nothing. I have the drive set-up on IDE0, as a slave... i also tried setting it up as a master on the IDE1. It seems to be reading the disk at a high speed then stop,,,, then read it again, then stop.. this is highly frustrating and have run out of options.
Could it be the CDRW drive? I have used it in the past.. (not very often) in my other computer and it hasn't really seemd to be a problem. In device manager it is also saying that the device is working properly.
I tried installing an old CREATIVE CDROM (4x) but have the same issues with that.. it is an old drive so i can understand that. This is why i think it may be a motherboard issue. Two drives to do the same thing.. unlikely.
Any help would be more than appreciated.. working on this for quite some time now.
Quentin
