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Newly installed DVD drive won't work

by rcgyuk Oct 29, 2008 8:24AM PDT

I have just put together a PC consisting of Abit A-N68SV(MCP68S) motherboard, 2048 MB memory, AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 dual core processor, 250 GB Hitachi SATA hard disk, and Philips DVDR1660P1 RW DVD drive (IDE)

Installed windows XP professional, every thing works fine.

I have now added a second DVD Re-Writer, an SATA Optiarc DVD RW AD-7203S.

This is correctly identified in device manager, but not in windows explorer, where it shows as DVD-RAM drive if I have no disc in it, or as a CD drive if I put a CD in it. However, it wont play either CD's or DVD's, it either tells me to put a disc in the drive, or locks up the PC completely.

Where have I gone wrong, and how can I get this second drive to work?

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by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 29, 2008 8:39AM PDT

XP can't tell what a DVD drive is until.... You install software such as nero or others. And said versions in OEM form often result in such headaches. Try uninstalling that software and then delete the filters in the registry like you read at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

That should get the drives working unless you gaffed the jumpers. The lockups are common with incorrect jumpers or if you didn't install the motherboard drivers.

AND DVD PLAYBACK IS NOT INCLUDED IN XP! Your post didn't tell what DVD player software you installed.
Bob

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Re: Remember
by rcgyuk Oct 29, 2008 8:49AM PDT

I use IMG Burn to write to my DVD drives, and VLC Media player to play DVD's. Both work on my existing DVD Re-Writwer, so why not on the new one?

However, before I try to do anything complicated, just getting this drive to play an audio CD would be an achievment.

My hard disk is working on SATA1, so surely this drive on SATA2 should also work.

Drive is SATA, it doesn't have jumpers.

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XP doesn't do SATA unless...
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 29, 2008 9:01AM PDT

You installed those drivers. Tell me about how you got XP to support SATA with your F6 FLOPPY INSTALL METHOD or did you use the BIOS IDE EMULATION?

If you used emulation, you may have to use that again for your second drive.
Bob

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Re: XP doesn't do SATA
by rcgyuk Oct 29, 2008 9:05AM PDT

I just put everything together, booted off my XP CD, and installed XP straight onto the SATA hard drive. Then loaded service packs 2 and 3, ran motherboard setup disk, and finally downloaded all MS updates.

I have not heard of either of the 2 things you mention below.

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That means you are using the IDE emulation.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 29, 2008 9:56AM PDT

I will mention that someone carried in a PIRATE HACKED XP that had the SATA DRIVERS IN IT but we can not discuss that.

-> So there it is. Review your BIOS settings and see how to enable another IDE SATA emulation for your new drive. OR try the other SATA connections. On one of my machines if I connect to the wrong port, no drive!
Bob

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Re: That means you are using the IDE emulation.
by rcgyuk Oct 30, 2008 11:23PM PDT

I looked in the bios set up, but could not see any obvious settings to change. If I boot off a cd, the drive works, its just my current installation of windows won't read this disk. I also found my existing DVD RW has stopped working since adding this second drive.

So I took the route I was trying to avoid, and re-installed XP with both drives already present.

Problem solved.

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