Upgrade and now CDRW Drive Problem

Hey guys..

Aint been here in a while

Hey ive just upgraded my computer... went from a p3-800 to a amd duron 1100.. so new motherboard, cpu, ram and case p/s.

I swapped my cdrw and hard drive disk drive... pci cards etc over from my old system.

Since this has happend my cdrw drive will burn but won't read any data... it sees wats on the drive.. but cannot copy from it...

Im running MS win xp on this system.. but its not os because i cant even boot my knoppix cd... it starts to but then dies after a lil bit.

Any ideas?

Cables and jumpers on the mother board are all ok round the correct way etc... and the cdrw is detected in the bios...

Have since tried the cdrom in another machine and it works fine... put another drive into its place and same problem... im guessing something with motherboard but dunno where to start.

Maybe faulty??? just a side note... tried to change bus speed from 100mhz to 133 and it just wont boot at all? am i missing something? or does it sound like something wrong with motherboard.

Cheers

Wolfsta

 

Just a question: Did you install the new MOBO drivers?

 

Cheers

Well everything installed automattically pretty standard chipset etc... not running most of the onboard stuff have soublaster live card and agp card... but yes i will try that.. i have since solved the mystery with a different brand of cdrw... but i will try some m/b drivers from fic site. Thanks. will post my solution next.

Thanks guys

Wolfsta

 

Solution

Thanks for the help have found the problem.

Was talking to a guy i get second hand computers through so he knows of heaps of little querky problems...

He has had problems with hp mainboards and running samsung drives together finds them and says working but just doesnt..

Replaced my btc drive with a LG drive and works perfectly... the BTC drive i put in another machine and works perfectly. Just a compatibility issue with that mainboard and drive im guessing. I did try another btc drive identical and that one didnt work either.

Thanks again

Wolfsta