Problems with Asus a7v133 (Bios v.1.07) and ATA-100 IDE slot on winXP

[sak]

Hey I have a asus a7v133 w/ bios rev. 1.07. I have installed windows XP and on the 2 primary IDE chanells i have

1 IDE - WD 80GB HD (master) no slave on this IDE

2 IDE - Lite-on 24x burner (master)
DVD-Drive (slave)

1 ATA100 IDE slot - Nothing Master nor slave.

2 ATA100 IDE slot - 50x CD-rom drive (master) no slave. <----------- new Problem

Ok the problem i am having is that the 2 ATA100 IDE slot CD-Rom give me trouble in Win XP (this happens with any drive on this channel e.g. I changed 50x cd-rom with the CD-R and still had the same problem). It first takes a lot of time to recognise any cd i put into the drive. also the system i see gets a little slow. sometimes it freezes. which it never did before (b/c i did not have anything on this channel).


Is there a problem with the Bios version i am using. or with Win XP. do you think i should update the drivers for the Promise driver of XP?

Please give me any sugeestions

 

[Bartman39]

Couple of things come to mind here... #1... put the WD80 gig on the #1 ATA100 (as a master), #2 put the DVD drive on the #1 IDE (as a master), #3 put the 24X burner on the #2 IDE (as a master)...

Now just wondering why the 50X cdrom is needed...? The DVD drive slow...? If you really need it in the system put it on the #1 IDE channel as a slave to the DVD drive... (always keep the source drive and the CDRW on different IDE channels... end of buffer underuns for the most part...)

The ATA100 controllers are for HD`s not Cdrom`s or CDRW`s or anything else... (they just dont work well with anything else...?)

Give it whirl...

 

[sak]

Ok i will try this. I would think that since the ATA100 ide. should it not work for anything?

the only reason i dont keep my hard drive on the ATA100 ide. is that when i install XP or any other OS and boot up from the CD. It does not even recognize that i have a hard drive on this drive.
is there another way to have the OS bootup CD recognize the HD on ATA100 other than manually having to install its drivers?

Hope by doing that problem might be fixed.

 

[rimshaker]

<< The ATA100 controllers are for HD`s not Cdrom`s or CDRW`s or anything else... (they just dont work well with anything else...?) >>



Why is that? That can't be completely true. I've got both my cdrom and cdrw as masters on the ata100 controller, and i haven't had any problems.

 

[sak]

It might be a problem with the Promise controllers for Win XP. Actually even if u try to access my cd driver any of them. It take a long time for them to be accessed. Actually this is most of the time when Xp seems to hang.

 

[Farfrael]

hi,
wanted to resurect this thread .....

here is my config :

asus A7V (via KT133)
2 IBM drives UDMA 100 (each as master in a UDMA 100 IDE slot)
1 DVD
1 Cd Burner
1 Cd rom

cd burner as master on the primary ide slot (UDMA 66)
cd rom as slave on the primary ide slot (UDMA 66)

Os : win2k

I have a similar problem ....win2k doesn't seem to recognise my secondary UDMA 66 IDE.
Everything worked fine under Win Me and i checked the cables and stuff so i am SURE it comes from win2k.
So actually i cannot use my secondary IDE, which sucks for burning.

Anybody heard about that problem ? Any solution ?