NEC-3540 Causes CPU hang on Boot

[brianc2005]

I recently purchased an NEC-3540 burner. I have it installed correctly as a master on a msi-k8n neo2 platinium board with the nforce 3 ultra chipset. During windows boot, as soon as the loading screen appears the progress bar freezes for about 15 seconds after which normal boot continues. This began after i installed the new dvd drive. The drive works great in windows and burns disks fine. I am lead to believe that this is a conflict with the ide controller on the motherboard and the dvd-burner. I booted up linux and right after it inililized the dvd-burner the boot process would freeze and the message would be printed that said "Bug: Soft lockup detected on CPU:0" and then after about 15 seconds everything would work again. I have the newest bios for my motherboard and as far as i know there are no firmware upgrades for the drive. Any help would be apprecaited. Thanks

 

[stevty2889]

Try another IDE cable, and also try it on the other IDE port. Do you have an adequate power supply?