Lite-On DVD Drive Issue

[jshabouk]

All:

I just finished by new build with the Asus P5W DH Deluxe and C2D E6400 chip. Everything works great, but now my Lite-On SOHW-1693-S drive dowsn't read disks anymore. I had to put my older Pioneed DVD drive in the machine. I updated the drive firmware, but no luck. It will recognize disks in Windows XP Pro x64 edition, but when you try to run executables or copy, I get IO errors and other stuff (sorry I can;t be more specific).

Is there a BIOS setting I need to check out or change to get this drive to read correctly? Or is there a distinct possibility that this drive died in the course of 30 minutes of being moved (very delicately) from one case to another?

Advice would be GREATLY appreciated!

 

[imported_Imp]

Is the drive recognized by BIOS and windows? Did you install windows off of the Pioneer or did you pull a quick switcheroo on the new build (i.e. put old HDD in new computer, and didn't reinstall windows?).

 

[oynaz]

Try it in another computer if you can.

 

[jshabouk]

Drive was recognized by Bios, Installed Windows off it. When I went to install the motherboard drivers and video card drivers (as well as my other software), it would come back with read errors. I tried copying files to the HDD, but that failed as well. That was when I put in the Pioneer and it (the Pioneer) worked perfectly.

 

[jshabouk]

The drive was in my old computer 30 minutes earlier! It worked fine...

 

[henryay]

Bad motherboard drivers? They include IDE drivers.

 

[jshabouk]

They were right off the CD provided by ASUS. I guess I could check if they are the most recent...

 

[jshabouk]

Ok...problem SOLVED...In building the computer, I used the IDR cable that came with the motherboard marked for the CD-ROM drive. This was a 40 Pin-40 wire cable, not a 40 Pin-80 wire cable which is needed by high speed drives! I switched the cable out for another I had and PRESTO! DMA mode for both drives and the Lite-On works!