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Weird Optical Drive problem

T

The Internal

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Greetings,

I had a floppy that I never use lying around so I went ahead and threw it in my system (despite thinking floppies are the spawn of satan... who knows I might have to reinstall some SATA RAID controllers 2 years from now) and made sure it was working.
Soon after I did so, I noticed I had my DVD-Burner sharing a cable with my spare HD, so I switched I put it on it's own cable and my Lite-On CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive and backup HD on the same IDE cable. That's when the weirdness happened.
Now, whenever I put any cd or dvd in the combo drive and close it, my system stops. No blue screen, no crash... it just stops. Can't even wiggle the cursor after about 5 seconds. When I hit the eject button, it immediately works again. I originally had the combo drive on master, the backup HD on slave. I tried setting both to cable select. Still had the same problem. Both drives are being detected by the BIOS. I unplugged the backup HD and the combo drive worked fine. When I plugged back in the HD, problem came back. I uninstalled and reinstalled the combo drive... didn't fix the problem.
I've never seen anything quite like this. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Kev
 
You didn't mention an OS but you may want to UNINSTALL
the drive in DEVICE MANAGER and reboot, letting Windows
redetect the drive.

Or you can go to the DEVICE MANAGER and select the drive,
click properties and do an 'Update Driver'.
 
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