abrodski
Member
Hello!
I've been having this weird issue with my PC lately...
Before I moved to another country everything worked just fine...
I had SATA HD and 2 PATA devices-DVD-RW (brand new) and older CD-RW.
To the best of my recallection the PATA drives were on different channels, but I'm not too sure about that. Then I disassembled my PC, moved and here I reassembled it back together.
I didn't take the PATA CD-RW drive because of the weight on the plane limitation.
And now everything is OK, but I can't make DVD-RW work. It shows constant light on and doesn't react (can't even open it) and it's not seen in neither BIOS nor Windows.
The drive itself is fine (checked it in another PC). PATA data cables are not visibly damaged.
I tried to play with different Master-Slave combination and put the drive on different channels...no difference, except that sometime even the HD disappears as well.
I kinda gave up, so I was thinking just to buy a new SATA DVD-RW or even USB external one...Recently I've noticed that my PC sometimes shows the wrong time, but then I changed to PC clock and now it seems to be OK for a time being. Maybe the battery is getting older...its a 5 yo mo-bo (old AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 Gigabyte one)...
I've been having this weird issue with my PC lately...
Before I moved to another country everything worked just fine...
I had SATA HD and 2 PATA devices-DVD-RW (brand new) and older CD-RW.
To the best of my recallection the PATA drives were on different channels, but I'm not too sure about that. Then I disassembled my PC, moved and here I reassembled it back together.
I didn't take the PATA CD-RW drive because of the weight on the plane limitation.
And now everything is OK, but I can't make DVD-RW work. It shows constant light on and doesn't react (can't even open it) and it's not seen in neither BIOS nor Windows.
The drive itself is fine (checked it in another PC). PATA data cables are not visibly damaged.
I tried to play with different Master-Slave combination and put the drive on different channels...no difference, except that sometime even the HD disappears as well.
I kinda gave up, so I was thinking just to buy a new SATA DVD-RW or even USB external one...Recently I've noticed that my PC sometimes shows the wrong time, but then I changed to PC clock and now it seems to be OK for a time being. Maybe the battery is getting older...its a 5 yo mo-bo (old AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 Gigabyte one)...
