David
December 6th 03, 09:27 PM
John,
I have had similar problems, and the possibilities are
many.The first thing to check is that you have the jumper
on the back of the DVD drive set correctly. Then , verifiy
that you have the cable plugged up right. If you have the
DVD on the same cable , both devices must be jumpered
correctly....you can't have the DVD on Slave, and the hard
drive on cable select, both on cable select, or one master
and one slave. Having said that...some DVD drives will not
work on the same cable as a hard drive..so look at your
configuration for options. The next thing to check is your
bios main page, when you boot up. Verify that it is being
indentifyed correctly by the mainboard bios, you may have
to change some of the settings. Last but not least, check
both in bios, and in XP for the proper DMA setting..make
sure that it is set the same in bios, as in properties in
XP, and that the setting is what is recommended by the
device.
Hope this helps..
David
>-----Original Message-----
>I am having trouble with my DVD-Rom be properly reconized
>in Window XP. It show up under disk drives rather than CD-
>ROM/DVDs in system properies. If I uninstall the disk
>drive and then scan for hardware changes, it properly
>finds the DVD-ROM and puts it under the correct device
>category. It then also shows up correctly as a CD-Rom/DVD-
>Rom icon in My Computer, and it works properly for that
>windows session. However, the next time I boot my
computer
>it is again showing up as a disk drive, and is unuseable
>unless I go through the whole process again of
>uninstalling and rescanning. Why is windows doing this,
>and how can I correct this?
>
>.
>
I have had similar problems, and the possibilities are
many.The first thing to check is that you have the jumper
on the back of the DVD drive set correctly. Then , verifiy
that you have the cable plugged up right. If you have the
DVD on the same cable , both devices must be jumpered
correctly....you can't have the DVD on Slave, and the hard
drive on cable select, both on cable select, or one master
and one slave. Having said that...some DVD drives will not
work on the same cable as a hard drive..so look at your
configuration for options. The next thing to check is your
bios main page, when you boot up. Verify that it is being
indentifyed correctly by the mainboard bios, you may have
to change some of the settings. Last but not least, check
both in bios, and in XP for the proper DMA setting..make
sure that it is set the same in bios, as in properties in
XP, and that the setting is what is recommended by the
device.
Hope this helps..
David
>-----Original Message-----
>I am having trouble with my DVD-Rom be properly reconized
>in Window XP. It show up under disk drives rather than CD-
>ROM/DVDs in system properies. If I uninstall the disk
>drive and then scan for hardware changes, it properly
>finds the DVD-ROM and puts it under the correct device
>category. It then also shows up correctly as a CD-Rom/DVD-
>Rom icon in My Computer, and it works properly for that
>windows session. However, the next time I boot my
computer
>it is again showing up as a disk drive, and is unuseable
>unless I go through the whole process again of
>uninstalling and rescanning. Why is windows doing this,
>and how can I correct this?
>
>.
>