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P4C800-E: problem with a CD-RW/DVD combo optical drive?
Hi Everyone.
I am not sure at all this is a motherboard problem, but my LG GCC-4320B combo drive has a problem as it will NOT read a DVD-ROM disc. It probably is a problem with the drive but I would like to make sure before ditching it. After I insert a DVD-ROM disc in the drive, the drive activity LED flashes for about 13 seconds and then stops - nothing happens after that. No problems reported by win XP pro in the device manager. However the drive has NO problems reading a CD or CD-ROM, or burning a CD-R . It was the first time I was attempting to read a DVD-ROM disc since installing this motherboard 5 months ago. I know the drive was OK before that as I had read the same DVD-ROM disc with the same drive on my previous motherboard (Gigabyte GA-7VTX/athlon Tbird 1.333/266). Also, I did a cleanup of the drive lens, although there was no dirt visible, but with no results. On the P4C800-E though, I observed something strange in the BIOS boot messages: in IDE autodetect messages I get: PRIMARY MASTER: ...(everything seems OK) SECONDARY MASTER: ATAPI CD-ROM ... DMA MODE: off ... PIO MODE: 0 although, inside the BIOS SETUP UTILITY, looking at the configuration of the SECONDARY MASTER IDE device (the CD drive), I see (for the non-changeable parameters): DEVICE: ATAPI CD-ROM VENDOR: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4320B LBA MODE: supported PIO MODE: 4 ASYNC DMA: multiword DMA-2 ULTRA DMA: ultra DMA-2 For the changeable parameters (PIO, DMA), I have them set up both to AUTO. During the boot the PIO MODE gets changed from 4 to 0 and the DMA from 2 to off??? Could that be related to the problem? So, to make a long story short, could any of you (owning a P4C800-E) tell me what you see during the boot of your machine (SYSTEM CONFIGURATION, AMIBIOS... panel) for the parameters of your CD-ROM, CD-RW or DVD-rom drive. Thanks to all in advance. p.s.: the drive jumper is configured as CS (cable select). |
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