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I recently setup a new computer with the following parts:
Asus P4S8X mobo (bios 1005)
P4 Northwood 2.66hgz
2x256 + 1x512 RAM (PC3200)
40gb Maxtor 133/7200rpm
Radeon 7000 AGP (Ancient, I know - but fine for this comp)
No Name 4x DVD/RW
No Name 52x CD/RW
WinXP SP2 - all updates current
Here's my problem:
The install worked fine, no problems at all. Only when I tried to burn a CD did I have problems. Everytime I put in a blank disc the computer would pretty much freeze until I ejected it. If I tried to use Nero or Window Explorer to burn the CD it would either give a drive error or say there were probs with the recording process (even though it never even tried to access the blank CD) Basically the master would read disks but give a burn error and the Slave disk would not even look at any disk at all.
I tried swtich the CD/RW to master and the DVD/RW to slave, but the problem only travelled with the Slave drive. (CD/RW would read but not write, DVD wouldn't do anything)
So, I thought it was a bad cable. I replaced it - Same prob.
The drives are installed, show as working fine in Device manager. The master will read disks, the slave will not (I even tried other drives, same results).
Write won't happen at all (however, it will cache files for writting on the master, but not on the slave, no burning ever actually happens.
I did do one bad thing: I stopped a defrag early. I needed to see if the thing would burn disks (since I hadn't tested that yet), and that is when I noticed the problem.
Unfortunately I didn't try the slave drive (read or write) before the defrag issue - so I can't say that has anything do with it. It's not my computer so I won't be able to work on it all night. Can anyone help me out?
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