Samsung SATA DVDRW wont work on P35 mobo

[Oyeve]

A few months ago I began purchasing parts for my new C2D system. Currently I have the PC in my sig that has an Asrock mobo with a ULI chipset. The new components I have bought were a Gigabyte GA-P35-DSR3, an E6850 CPU, a Samsung SATA SH-183L DVD burner with Lighscribe and 2 gigs of Crucial Ballistix mem. I tested the Samsung burner on my current system and it works great. I had attached it a while ago to my Nf4 secondary system and the pc would not even boot, I had tried installing a PCI sata board and attach the SATA burner to that and it would boot but lock up. Anyway, I have finally gotten my new system up and running and the memory, new cpu and mobo work great. I installed the Samsung SATA drive and the system sees it as a DVDRAM drive. Cool I thought, but nooooo, I put ANY type of disk in it, audio, dvd movie, blank dvd, blank cdr and nothing gets recognized. Nada. I put in a bootable DVD and it will not even boot the DVD. I put the SATA drive in my current system and it works fine. ANYONE have any idea why this wont work on my P35 mobo? I could understand it not working on an old NF4 winfast system as it is an antique by todays standards but the ASrock system workd with it just fine. I would assume the P35 mobo would work with it even better. I have flashed the mobo to latest bios and flashed the burner to the latest firmware version from Samsungs website. The drive was OEM. Is there a special driver for this dvd burner? I would find it odd that it would even need a driver. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks.


*UPDATE*

Well, this sucke doesnt work on the ASrock now, called Newegg and set up an RMA. Gotta love new technology. Hehe!

 

[Peter]

What operating mode did you put the SATA channels in? IDE or AHCI?

 

[orion23]

Go to the device manager and choose "scan for hardware changes"

If it's found, then you might just need chipset drivers.

Try installing the latest Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility and then the Intel RAID storage Utility (if your board has RAID)

It worked for me!

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Peter
What operating mode did you put the SATA channels in? IDE or AHCI?

I tried both, no go for either.


Orion23, the drive is recognized, but does not read any discs.

 

[Oyeve]

I also notice that although the drive is seen in XP, under properties it says file system :unknown. weird.

 

[Oyeve]

Actually, its not working on any of the 3 systems I have. Ug, on phone with Newegg about this.

 

[kmmatney]

I had a lot of SATA problems with my ASrock board and a 945P based Gigabyte motherboard, but I would think that a P35 board would be fine. If its now not working on any systems, then most likely its now a problem with the DVD burner. bummer.