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| Thread ID: 93073 | 2008-09-03 01:06:00 | Problems with DVD Burner Recognition | KenESmith (6287) | Press F1 |
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| 702159 | 2008-09-03 01:06:00 | I have been donated a reasonably good computer ( ex gateway server) by my son in law. The CD Burner - A HP 9300 Series IDE model was not working so I replaced it with a SATA Liteon Lightscribe DVD Burner (There were 4 available SATA connections on the motherboard.) The problem is that although the DVD Burner covers all the normal DVD and CD options, the Liteon DVD Burner is being recognised only as a DVD RAM burner. The motherboard on this box is an ASUS P5AD2-E Deluxe, which was a fairly well speced mobo when it was new. Any ideas on how to sort this problem - Would it be in options taken on the mobo install CD when the box was first set up. I also replaced the Graphics card with something a bit more modern - an ASUS EN8600GT. The only other problem is the computer takes an unreasonably long time to boot up and there is next to nothing on it as yet. Suggestions and help greatly appreciated |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 702160 | 2008-09-03 01:13:00 | Regarding the DVD -RAM - all of mine here, and I looked on 4, all show as that until a CD/DVD is placed in the drive - all work perfectly, if the drive works OK I wouldn't worry about it. Example (www.imagef1.net.nz) - same drive top pic is without anything in the drive, bottom, same drive with a blank DVD. Regarding the Speed - what are the system Spec's please - CPU & Amount of RAM (memory) & what OS ? |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 702161 | 2008-09-03 01:20:00 | Yup the ASUS burner here, shows as DVD-ram drive, in my computer as well. But works fine. Nothing to worry about |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 702162 | 2008-09-03 03:20:00 | System Specs: CPU Pentium D 3.06 Ghz RAM 2GB Geil 667 RAM Thanks Ken |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 702163 | 2008-09-03 03:48:00 | Whats set to run on startup? | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 702164 | 2008-09-03 06:23:00 | Very little set to run XP Pro SP3 is the OS It has MS Office 2003 installed, but one has to launch that Similarly with Photoshop. and Firefox Currently using Firewall with XP Pro but will change to Zone Alarm in due course. A mate loaded a commercial anti virus for me courtesy of his company as a stop gap. It has a very small footprint compared to Norton. There is no data what soever on the machine as yet because it has not yet been fully set-up |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 702165 | 2008-09-03 06:30:00 | Look in the event logs (in run type eventvwr) to see if anything is crashing or hanging on startup. | stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 702166 | 2008-09-03 10:58:00 | Yup the ASUS burner here, shows as DVD-ram drive, in my computer as well . Same . Slow startup time could be caused by some weird hardware detection issue . I would disconnect the DVD drive and see what happens . Make sure you have all the latest drivers installed . Don't get them from Asus if possible; eg: if you have Intel chipset, get the drivers from Intel |
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