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Problems with Cd-ROM drives - NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THIS COULD BE?

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divinemartyr

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Hi, I have an Asus CUSL2-C and everything was running fine until recently. I'm not sure if flashing the CD-ROMs has caused the problems, but I didn't have any until I tried to run Nero, and burn a CD. Before this I was able to play audio CDs and extract data and do installs. Now I'm having problems running certain programs.

I have a Kenwood 72X and a TDK VeloCD.

I tried disconnecting the TDK from the ide bus, was still having problems. So I connected the TDK and disconnected the Kenwood and my HARD DRIVE which is on the other IDE channel would not detect. Now it doesn't matter which of the two I connect I can't even get my hard drive recognized.

Is it possible I have a faulty secondary IDE channel which is also causing conflicts to where my primary IDE channel will not work? When I just have the hard drive connected I have no problems. Any ideas would be appreciated.

divinemartyr
 
Try looking over your IDE cables carefully, or even replace them if you can't find anything wrong with them. Also how familiar are you with setting master/slave? I asume you are, but I have to ask.
 
LordSandMan:

Yeah I set the master/slave settings properly. Now this is the really strange part get this:

I connected each drive individually on the IDE Secondary channel, setting each to master when I only had that one connected, and then my computer wouldn't even detect my hard drive. No IDE devices registered. I double checked to make sure everything was connected and it was.

I switched out IDE cables, and still had problems. I think flashing the cd-rom drives, the Kenwood especially, may have caused this problem. I think I may just return the 2 drives to see if I can't get them replaced.

divinemartyr
 
Damn, your right this is a strange one. I've got a couple more theories for you.

1. Your onboard IDE controller may have failed or is failing. Do you have a PCI IDE controller you could throw in there, or do you know someone who has one?

2. You aren't getting too much or too little voltage from your powersupply and frying things are you? Check the bios and see what the voltages are.

3. Just a thought, but not likely, you aren't using cableselect IDE cables are you?
 
humm i had a cd-rom once that stopped playing audio and every time i tried it would crash the computer so i got it replaced and that fixed that problem. the next cd player i got started to do the same thing but this time it was software, real player i think. so it may be a bad cd-rom

my 2 cents
 
LordSandMan,

No I don't have the PCI IDE controller. Would love to try one to see if the problem is motherboard related. I just called up the 2 places I bought my cd-rom and cd-rw drives from and got RMA's for returns. I'm sick of trying to figure it out. Going to reinstall the 2 drives and see if that doesn't fix my problem. Updating the firmwares may have messed something up and I'm still within my return period on these drives so no harm done.

If that doesn't work I'm going to try connecting an old IDE cd-rw i have laying around to this machine. Right now I'm too lazy to do that and would just assume the problem is in the drives I own. bleh

divinemartyr
 
Let me make sure I've got this right. With a single hard drive connected (no CD or anything else hooked up to the IDE channel you still can't see the hard drive in bios??? Then you have some other problem besides the CD drives.
 
LordSandMan

Incorrect, with nothing else connected, I had no problems, the hard drive booted fine. I'd know I had a problem if this was the case. My problem was when one single drive was connect (meaning one single cd-rom, not hard drive) then it wouldn't recognize any IDE devices period. When I connect both IDE CD-ROM's everything is fine. Very strange but I got an RMA on both drives nonetheless. Just going to try again with new ones, because i only have problems when loading my burner software or some other cd type program. CD audio plays fine, installs go fine on both of these devices.

divinemartyr
 
What brand hard drives? I have a WD drive that requires a different jumper setting for single than master. It isn't recognized if it is on the channel by itself. Could it be that the new flash does not like Nero? Well I guess we'll see when the new drives arrive. Hopefully it was one of the drives.
 
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