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Strange issue with blu-ray drive - probably motherboard

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chalkstorm

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Hi guys

Been a lurker for years.... but only just registered..... because I need some help - so apologies....

I've been using a Gigabyte motherboard ga-ma78gm-s2h - in my home cinema PC for a couple of years....which has been happily running a blu-ray drive. Today, I bought a new blu-ray drive - a Samsung SH-B123L. After fitting it.... the PC (Win7) could see it - but would not recognise any disk thrown at it.....

I thought it was dead so raised an RMA.... but then decided to try it on another of my PCs... with a DFI LanParty JR P45-T2RS - and it worked perfectly! How strange....

I checked the original drive - worked fine on both PCs - but the new one totally refused to work in the home cinema PC. An old DVD/RW worked fine as did my SATA hard drives.

I thought it must be windows drivers.... so just to check, tried to boot from the blu-ray with a Win7 DVD. Totally refused again although the BIOS could see it clearly.

I don't think the drive is faulty -and it is running the latest firmware.

All this in anticipation of building my new i5 2500k overclocked system that I haven't got to yet....

Any ideas?

:|
 
Bad cable or bad SATA port. There's always a small possibility that a certain MB just won't work well with certain drives, but these issues are pretty rare and usually fixed with bios/firmware updates (MB or drive).
 
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Binky said:
Bad cable or bad SATA port. There's always a small possibility that a certain MB just won't work well with certain drives, but these issues are pretty rare and usually fixed with bios/firmware updates (MB or drive).
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Thanks for your reply blinky....

I've eliminated cables and port by running the other blu-ray and HDs using them..... and both board and drive have the latest bios/fimrware.

Most odd.....😡
 
Don't assume that a cable that works in one computer should work in another. Use a different cable to be certain.

I see B03 firmware as the latest for that drive.
 
Yup - used a 2nd cable..... didn't work.... although it did with the other drive and HDs. The drive came shipped with B03......

🙁
 
Native IDE....

Funny though, reading about it last night...and not being able to work out why my eSATA HD caddy wasn't recognised.... could this be the issue? Stange though that the original blu-ray drive works.

Will give it a go changing it shortly.

Will this screw up my OS boot?

Si
 
it may, but you can revert to ide if you have issues, also maybe see if there are drivers for the on board controller?
 
Right - got to say I've given up. With all drives unplugged except the ne drive, the PC still recognises it in the BIOS - but then won't boot from it.... under ACHI or native IDE. Works perfectly with the old drive... and the new blu-ray works perfectly in my other system.
Got to say I'm pretty frustrated.... as don't actually need blu-ray in my other system - but can't return it as it isn't faulty.....
Thanks all for the tips....
🙁
 
If you have multiple SATA drives that have shown issues with this MB, the most likely explanation is the MB.
 
Just wanted to update you... gave up with the Samsung and have RMA'd it...... after I ordered an LG drive which works perfectly with all systems.
No idea what the issue is (incompatibility maybe?)
Cheers
 
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