wildwest6
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Computer stops operating after inserting cd
The computer I built uses a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro Motherboard with a 865PE Intel Chipset. A sony DVD player as slave on ide controller 1 with a Liteon CDRW as Master on IDE controller 2. When you use the cdrw on IDE controller 2 the next time you boot the system it will stop working when you insert a cd or dvd in either drive. Once you reboot with the cd in you can get it to work. Some times it will take two reboot.
The system has a pent 4 , 3.0 , with 1 meg cache at 800 mhz.
9800 pro ati card
on board sound card which has been turned off in the Bios.
instead a sound blaster 5.1 is being used.
It also has 1 gig of 400 mhz (patriot) ddr memory.
XP Home edition.
I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled software with only the drivers and disconnected the usb on usb port 2. but it still hangs up after you use cd burner. it hangs up regardless which player use.
Any suggestions. I have replaced the dvd player thinking it was the auto dect that was the problem. sound is transferred through the pci slots.
The system has a pent 4 , 3.0 , with 1 meg cache at 800 mhz.
9800 pro ati card
on board sound card which has been turned off in the Bios.
instead a sound blaster 5.1 is being used.
It also has 1 gig of 400 mhz (patriot) ddr memory.
XP Home edition.
I have reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled software with only the drivers and disconnected the usb on usb port 2. but it still hangs up after you use cd burner. it hangs up regardless which player use.
Any suggestions. I have replaced the dvd player thinking it was the auto dect that was the problem. sound is transferred through the pci slots.
you can try using 1 cd drive at a time, and test both of them if they are working ok separately.
you can try changing it to slave
you can test each one on another system
you can try changing it to slave
you can test each one on another system
Are the drives set as Master and Slave or Cable select?
In Device Manager, are both drives happy? Sounds a little like an IRQ conflict. Do you get the hangs when only one drive has it's data cable connnected?
It's not a DMA thing is it. I personally put my cdrw and dvd drives on IDE 2 and leave IDE1 for the hard disks. This way windows can optimise the (dma) settings differently for the fast HDs and slow cd/dvd's. Some burning software complain about this saying there could be i/o clashes, but I've yet to experience this.
wildwest6 - any movement on this?
one last thing - do you get the problem if the optical drives are NOT in the boot sequence? ie set up to boot from C: and all other boot devices disabled?
one last thing - do you get the problem if the optical drives are NOT in the boot sequence? ie set up to boot from C: and all other boot devices disabled?
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turns out it was a bad cdrw. changed it out and it started working fine.
Have you tried upgrading the motherboard's BIOS? Forgive me if this has already been posted.
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good luck
jeff