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A wee bit of diagnostic help here. I built my UPS driver a computer from spare parts left from all my upgrades. Gave him a
WinXP machine,
512MB of ram (164pin),
2x40GB HDD's (no raid),
P3 850mhz,
sblive (no live! drive),
56K modem, 10/100NIC
16x DVD-rom
32x CD-RW
All for about $150 (a copy of WinXP and the case basically)
My problem is that the CD-RW which came directly out of my old machine (replaced with DVD-RW) always reports '0 objects' in windows explorer no matter what type of game/music CD i put in there. I swapped out the cd-rw for a different (slower one) and even changed the IDE cable connecting them with no difference.
Jumpers are in their right places and the IDE controllers are both set to UDMA mode 5 (PIO Only didnt work either).
I'm at me wits end becaues i have no clue why windows explorer displays "0 objects" instead of "insert disc into drive f" like it normally would if the drive was empty. Changed cable, changed drive - no change.
So far i suspected the power supply....sort of.
First i switched the cd-rw from slave to master and the dvd-rom from master to slave. Well it still did the same thing. So i ran the system with the dvd-rom off of the ide and molex connectors.
Cd-RW detected all the cds perfectly. So i figured it was a weak power supply. Well the only two power supplies i have on hand are the same wattage (300). I took the original PSU out and put a comparable PSU in that has a little bit more amp's on the 12V rail (15 over 10).
Well now all the CD's are detected....detected as blank CDs, and one is Diablo and the other is a music CD!
Help!
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