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I had a similar problem with my setup and haven't solved the problem yet.
I bought all brand new hardware from NewEgg:
1 Antec Performance I P180 Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
1 ABIT Fatal1ty AN8-SLI Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
1 ASUS EN7800GTX/2DHTV/256 Geforce 7800GTX 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
1 SeaSonic S12-600 ATX12V 600W Power Supply - Retail
1 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail
2 Rosewill 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model RW400/2048KITDP - Retail
2 Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
1 Pioneer Black IDE DVD Burner Model DVR-610B - Retail
This DVD burner worked for the first few hours.. I was trying to install Windows XP Pro x64 edition and kept running into problems (machine rebooting, etc.) Then all of a sudden the DVD burner couldn't read my Widows XP CD anymore. So I took my Pioneer DVR-A05 (DVD burner) from another machine and plugged it in to try to install XP x64. It made a lot of noise and scratched the crap out of my x64 CD (huge rings scratched into it). Now I'm out of a CD, so I use my MSDN subscription to download a copy since my original is hosed, and I use my old Yamaha CRW2100E to burn a new cd for XP x64 and try again. Other machines can read the new CD ok, and the new Pioneer drive which I bought can't read it (when plugged into any machine now. It's totally useless now).
Anyway.. to make a long story short, I ended up disabling Raid, removed to sticks of ram (down to 2G now) and my system is more stable (rebooting issues and random issues gone), but I cannot install World of Warcraft on this machine. I have 2 copes (mine and my girlfriends) and it tries to install for a while then fails. These WoW CD's read (copy whole cd to temp folder) fine on my other machine with another CD-ROM drive.
This is the 3rd IDE DVD-ROM drive plugged into this machine. It allowed me to install Windows (miracle) but has read errors installing WoW. This DVD-ROM drive isn't a burner and isn't destroying CDs with this machine, but I'm still stuck...
I disabled DMA transwers in the Bios for the IDE drive (it's the only one) to see if that helps.. The install is crawling now but seems to be getting further... Edit: Still ran into the same problem. Edit2: I was able to Install WoW over the network (put the CDs in a cd-rom drive in another machine, and shared that drive, then mapped it to drive Z: on the new machine). It installed without a problem this way, but why won't a local cd-rom drive read properly on this machine?
I hate problems like this because I'm not sure what is wrong and am wasting so much time troubleshooting. I feel like I will never figure it out and I've wasted $2500.00 (not including monitor, keyboard, mouse).
Any ideas?
Edit: I did try swapping cables with a known good one, but no help.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 27. November 2005 @ 04:41
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