I have a brand new Samsung SM-332 CD-RW/DVD drive. I installed it into my ASUS-P4S533 based system running Windows XP.
Looks great, plays DVDs great, real quite too - but then I put in a music CD to play, bad stuff happens.
What I observe is the CD is never recognized (I've tried many, its not the CD). Also the CPU seems to go into constant 50% utilization, even though the task manager does not show any process eating 50% of the CPU. As a consequence moving the mouse is jerky, sound playback (from audio files, not the CD - that never works) is choppy, and basically everything is choppy. Sounds like an IRQ conflict but I don't see any - plus playing DVDs is just fine. This is attached on the second IDE bus as the only device in master mode.
When I disable the device all is well again. However if I re-enable it it does not reapper until I reboot, and although DVD playback is once again fine, as soon as I put a CD in there it behaves exactly the same way.
Question is: do I have a faulty drive or is this some kind of Win/XP problem? Its using standard Windows drivers and I can't find any info that would suggest there's any config problem (as is indicated by the perfect DVD playback). Is there any way I can figure out what is chewing my CPU if its not any processes?
Thanks!
Looks great, plays DVDs great, real quite too - but then I put in a music CD to play, bad stuff happens.
What I observe is the CD is never recognized (I've tried many, its not the CD). Also the CPU seems to go into constant 50% utilization, even though the task manager does not show any process eating 50% of the CPU. As a consequence moving the mouse is jerky, sound playback (from audio files, not the CD - that never works) is choppy, and basically everything is choppy. Sounds like an IRQ conflict but I don't see any - plus playing DVDs is just fine. This is attached on the second IDE bus as the only device in master mode.
When I disable the device all is well again. However if I re-enable it it does not reapper until I reboot, and although DVD playback is once again fine, as soon as I put a CD in there it behaves exactly the same way.
Question is: do I have a faulty drive or is this some kind of Win/XP problem? Its using standard Windows drivers and I can't find any info that would suggest there's any config problem (as is indicated by the perfect DVD playback). Is there any way I can figure out what is chewing my CPU if its not any processes?
Thanks!
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