Please help: LG - DVD RW behaving very weird.

[bulava]

Hello,

I am in very weird trouble with the LG DVD RW. Actually the H/W config on my Mom's PC was like this (both optical drives were working very well with Nero 7.5.x version as well as with K3b under linux):

Pri. Master - 80 GB IDE drive
Pri. Slave - Sony CDRW and DVD R combo drive
Sec. Master - This LG DVD RW

Then, I've removed Sony combo drive from the PC and updated the BIOS settings. Then all the trouble started with this DVD RW drive:

a) It may or maynot detect CDs
b) I can't burn CDs

Only consolation is DVDs are detected easily, I didn't test burning a DVD.

Here is the DVD info shown in the System Info:

Drive F:
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type CD-ROM
Name HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H44N
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status OK
Transfer Rate Not Available
SCSI Target ID 0
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GSA-H44N________________RB01____\5&33AA7659&0&0.0.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 48.38 KB (49,536 bytes), 8/3/2004 10:59 PM)


Why this LG DVD behaving this way Please help me to troubleshoot this problem....


Thanks,

bulava

 

[BoBBYI986]

Hi, try uninstalling the drive from device manager, restarting the pc, windows will then detect the drive as new hardware and re-install the drivers. see if the re-install of drivers fix's your problem.

 

[bulava]

Hi, try uninstalling the drive from device manager, restarting the pc, windows will then detect the drive as new hardware and re-install the drivers. see if the re-install of drivers fix's your problem.

Thanks for responding. I've removed & re-installed the driver, did the same with Nero too. I can read the CDs but I can't erase or burn any :O

Interesting thing is, when I try to enable DMA using Nero DMA Manager I get a pop up saying "No CD/DVD devices is attached to the IDE ports of the system!".

I think that's because I can't use DMA on this old MOBO (810e model running P-III 1.2 GHz tualatin processor).

Whatever it is, why this DVD drive not able to erase or burn :confused:

 

[BoBBYI986]

Direct Memory Access must not be enabled on your motherboard, old skool p3 which is about 10 years old. It's either a setting in nero or it's the drive it self that's gone faulty. I doubt it's your IDE cable or port because it obviously detects the drive in the bios and window.

 

[bulava]

Direct Memory Access must not be enabled on your motherboard, old skool p3 which is about 10 years old. It's either a setting in nero or it's the drive it self that's gone faulty. I doubt it's your IDE cable or port because it obviously detects the drive in the bios and window.

Quite correct, my Mom's PC is April, 2000 model (upgraded to Tualatin and new 810e2 MOBO in 2002).

I did check few settings in Nero, looks like all are fine. I always use good quality media like Sony, Moserbear, HP etc. I will check the IDE cable by removing and plugging back later (before that I need to check whether DVDs are getting burned or not!). Did you mean IDE port on the MOBO?