CD drives not working in XP Pro!! :(

[Brutuskend]

I have checked the trouble shooter and it says windows XP will only support so many IDE's.
I have two Raid 0 set-ups (running off of the onboard raid controller) and a storage hard drive (running off the onboard ATA 100 controller) as well as a 16X10X32 burner running off a Promise ATA PCI card and a DVD and CD ROM running off the second onboard ATA 100 IDE.

In windows 98SE everything is just fine, in 2000 Pro everything is just fine, but in XP when I put a disk in the drive (any of them) the contents of them will not show up.
If I leave the disk in the drive and re-boot, then the disk can be read.
This is annoying as HELL. If I want to install anything from a CD, I have to re-boot the computer!

Does anyone know of a fix for this?

I guess I could pull out one of the CD roms, but why should I have to?
Why do both 98 and 2000 NOT have a problem with this set-up, but XP does?

BTW: It's a ABIT VP-6 with dual P3 750's @863

Another problem I've been having (Once again ONLY in XP) sometimes my mouse and keyboard just stop responding for no good reason. And sometimes I get a beep from the system speaker while gaming or typing using the keyboard.

I keep my system up to date with "Update" so it's all patched up.....

Any help that can be offered is appreciated!!!

 

[Brutuskend]

Nobody can help me out here HUH??

 

[johnlog]

Check in the Device Manager and see if you have any conflicts. You can tell if there is a conflict quickly because it usually shows as a yellow circle with an exclamation point in it.

All your drives, CD and floppy drives should be listed in Device Manager. If not then one of them may not be installed correctly.

 

[imported_Phil]

I have the same problem occasionally, setup is below:

QID Kinetiz 7B mobo with Duron 700
256Mb RAM, 30Gb IBM + 22Gb IBM (on different channels)
Pioneer 16x DVD (on the same channel as the 30Gb) and CyberDrive 16x12x40x CDRW on the 22Gb channel.
TNT2 + 56K PCI + TV card + SB128, all the usual.
WinXP Pro fully patched

Sometimes I'll pop a disc in and it'll refuse to acknowledge that it's actually in the drive, rebooting will sometimes solve this although if you're running Norton Antivirus 2002, try temporarily disabling it and putting the disc back in, works sometimes for me. Don't know what causes it, I have no conflicts and this didn't happen under Win2k or anything before that. The problem has kinda gone away in the last few days (wood! need some wood!) so I'm not really sure what to advise. Maybe try resetting your BIOS to Optimized Defaults or Fail-Safe Defaults might cure it, I did try that. Oh, and BIOS upgrades, WindowsUpdate etc...
Have a look on the Knowledge Base too (microsoft.com, hover on Search at the top, Knowledge Base).

Hope this helps! I found this incredibly annoying too....

Dopefiend

 

[Brutuskend]

I am running Norton internet security, but the auto protect is off for virus's. (If I enable it it crashes)

I have checked @ Microsoft and it says XP only handles a certian number of IDE's and I guess I have one too many.

One of my CDs doesn't show up at all.

There are no conflicts....

 

[Dreadogg]

hay I have seen this with my fathers system he has the Nvidia 420 and only has two drives, it only really happens with RW/R disks and underXP this drive reads these cd's fine in 98!

 

[Brutuskend]

Mine won't read regular CD's either......

 

[Tash]

I just had the CD drive disappear from "My Computer." I had to reboot to get it to reappear. And I only have two hard drives and one CD-ROM are the only IDE devices. (WIN XP)

 

[johnlog]

That is strange. I have two hard drives, an LS-120 drive, CD ROM drive, floppy disk drive and have not lost any of them in XP Pro.

Since so many are reporting the same problem with drives disappearing for whatever reason it must be happening. But, why is it happening to some and not to others like me?

 

[krazykilroy]

When I built my recent system at first, I had a IDE controller card the I tried to put my 4 optical drives into (CD, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW) with my hard drives int the boards Ide ports. Was troubling for me. for one, couldn't boot up winXP because booting from CD couldn't happen because the CD wasn't in a mobo IDE port.

Switched it around and put hard drives in controller card, and CD's in mobo ports, and feel great about it.

 

[mastertech01]

Originally posted by: krazykilroy
When I built my recent system at first, I had a IDE controller card the I tried to put my 4 optical drives into (CD, CDRW, DVD, DVDRW) with my hard drives int the boards Ide ports. Was troubling for me. for one, couldn't boot up winXP because booting from CD couldn't happen because the CD wasn't in a mobo IDE port.

Switched it around and put hard drives in controller card, and CD's in mobo ports, and feel great about it.

This is what I was going to suggest... some ata controllers dont support CD drives well.

 

[jimmygates]

I once had a disappearing harddrive that would come back after reboot. The system would not crash or nothing but after a certain amount of hours one of my backup harddrive would disappear. I found out that my power supply was to weak to support all my devices. I bought a new power supply (Enermax 431w) and everything good to go again.


It might or might not be the problem. Might be worth a try.



-Jimbo

 

[Brutuskend]

My PS is a 450 watt'er so I don't think thats the problem.

Also like I said I'm Tri booting and everything works OK in 2000 Pro and 98SE..........

Seems there must be a bug in XP as it looks like I'm NOT the only one having this problem...