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| Thread ID: 43894 | 2004-03-30 21:35:00 | DVD writer, help! | mikeymike76 (4408) | Press F1 |
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| 226109 | 2004-03-30 21:35:00 | I have just brought a DVD writer from dick smith, check out specs at dse.co.nz (act no.XH6832), it is stated to work with my computer, yet it won't. I first tried it as a slave on the primary ide cable with the hdd, the seondary cable held my cdrom drive as a master. It booted to the logon (win 2k), but then reset itself. I then pulled out my knoppix cd to see if it could detect it, it didn't detect it at all, yet it says that it is linux friendly. I then tried as a master on the secondary cable, with no cd rom, and master still on the primary cable. Same thing, it booted to login screen, and then reset itself. I disconected the dvd drive and booted just with the cd rom, and it worked fine. I had a look in the event viewer for system to see if that could tell me why. I remember that there is a setting in windows somewhere that instead of showing the blue screen of death it will just reset itself. The event viewer just said that it found a problem in "bug trace" or something, and that a log was written. I had a look at the log, but there didnt' seem to be anything interesting in there, it just seemed to be loading a lot of system (*.sys) files. This drive is faulty, I am not missing anything am I ? Please help, I am running win 2000, 256mb ram, amd anthlon 1800, 40gb hdd. |
mikeymike76 (4408) | ||
| 226110 | 2004-03-30 22:38:00 | This may sound silly, but have you checked the jumpers on the DVD Writer to match your Prim / Slave options? You could also check to see that the BIOS is set to auto-detect your optical drives, i.e. your primary slave may be set to "None" so it wound even look for it. Hope this helps? |
Marlboro (4607) | ||
| 226111 | 2004-03-30 22:45:00 | thanks for the help but I thought that if is the problem it wouyldn;t get past post let alone to windows also I have the same settings for my cd rom drive, and I eventually plugged it into the same cables as my cdrom drive ide cable and power cable. so it shoudl detect the same shouldn't it? |
mikeymike76 (4408) | ||
| 226112 | 2004-03-30 23:07:00 | From my experience (I could be wrong) if you have an Optical Drive attached with the BIOS set to NONE, your PC will boot fine and not recognise it, and if you have two devices with incorrect jumper setting on the same channel, it can get past POST, as you suggested. I've always assumed that if you set up an optical or harddrive on the primary channel, you should have it plugged into the end connector on the IDE cable, which may make a difference There is nothing more frustrating than spending money on a PC component and it not working... |
Marlboro (4607) | ||
| 226113 | 2004-03-30 23:08:00 | From my experience (I could be wrong) if you have an Optical Drive attached with the BIOS set to NONE, your PC will boot fine and not recognise it, and if you have two devices with incorrect jumper setting on the same channel, it can get past POST, as you suggested . I've always assumed that if you set up an optical or harddrive on the primary channel, you should have it plugged into the end connector on the IDE cable, which may make a difference There is nothing more frustrating than spending money on a PC component and it not working . . . |
Marlboro (4607) | ||
| 226114 | 2004-03-31 01:19:00 | Thanks Malbrough, but why would the machine pick up and recognise the cd rom drive, but not the dvd drive when the jumber settings are the same, and the I am using exactly the same plugs (i . e . the dvd drive takes over where the cd rom is, the cd rom drive is not attached when the dvd drive is attached) Anyone else have any ideas, I had an email from dick smith, and they think it is faulty as well . I just don't wanna look stupid if its something simple! |
mikeymike76 (4408) | ||
| 226115 | 2004-03-31 01:20:00 | sorry about the name being wrong Malboro | mikeymike76 (4408) | ||
| 226116 | 2004-03-31 01:22:00 | hmm, yea - i have had some trouble with getting burners from DSE to work too . . . . try checking the manual for odd little notes in funny places, eg: "only one recording software could be existed in os at one time" following this i was able to stop my PC rebooting all the time when i installed my first CD burner . there can also be things like "this drive may give undesireable results if connected to the same IDE cable as an ATAPI CDROM in Master mode" etc etc . it seems that the DSE drives are mad . anyway - i dont think the drive is faulty - i have had problems like this before - just try all the different options . . . (and the manual) |
agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 226117 | 2004-03-31 06:44:00 | FWIW I have installed one of these today, I set it to Slave on IDE 2 and it works just fine. Just burnt 4.2 GB of data backup in 14 minutes. | godfather (25) | ||
| 226118 | 2004-03-31 10:32:00 | Thanks GF for that info..I've been confused with the various + - R R/W formats. I value your opinion, and imagine you'ved checked out many DVD writers. So is this DSE ND1300 writer to be recommended. |
Bazza (407) | ||
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