I just set up a new computer with a MSI K8N Neo 4-F motherboard. Everything seems to work fine except the DVD/CDRW drive. When I first set it up, I put the HD on IDE1 master, and the DVD drive as IDE2 master. The drive worked fine until I would power down, switch it back on, and stick a CD in. At this point it would crash my computer. I don't know why, since it worked fine to install XP and some new drivers from CD. I thought maybe it was the nVidia SW IDE drivers, so I uninstalled those and had the same problem. I reinstalled Windows and the drive worked again (without SW drivers) until I shut down and turned it on.
I thought maybe it was a dud drive, even though it worked fine in the old machine it was in. So I installed a new CDRW drive into the IDE2 master spot. This time it worked, but Windows took forever to load. So I decided to put the DVD drive as the slave on IDE1. It works fine, except it can't read DVDs now. What gives? I don't think it's the actual drive or the cable. Is there something I'm missing? It's detected correctly as a DVD/CDRW drive in both the BIOS and XP. I'm not sure what to do. It reads CDs just fine, but doesn't even recognize DVDs. I'm afraid that if I buy a DVDRW drive it won't work no matter where I put the drive. Any ideas?
I thought maybe it was a dud drive, even though it worked fine in the old machine it was in. So I installed a new CDRW drive into the IDE2 master spot. This time it worked, but Windows took forever to load. So I decided to put the DVD drive as the slave on IDE1. It works fine, except it can't read DVDs now. What gives? I don't think it's the actual drive or the cable. Is there something I'm missing? It's detected correctly as a DVD/CDRW drive in both the BIOS and XP. I'm not sure what to do. It reads CDs just fine, but doesn't even recognize DVDs. I'm afraid that if I buy a DVDRW drive it won't work no matter where I put the drive. Any ideas?