K8N-E Deluxe Secondary IDE problem

[dudemang]

I've been having a lot of problems with this mother board. Since i've had it my cd-burner has been fading in and out. Sometiems the computer would recognize it. Others it just wasn't even there. So I opened it up and found out my friend had put a cable labeled "HDD Cable" in the secondary IDE slot and attached it to my cdrom. So i put the cable labeled "CDROM cable" and it started working just fine. Then it stopped recognizing the cdrom again. So i took out the cable and tried putting a new cd rom in it. Didn't work again. Now everytime i try and start my computer with anything plugged into the secondary IDE slot, it will randomly freeze. What the heck is going on? Please don't tell me my mobo needs to be replaced, it's brand freakin new.

dudeman

 

[Cybercraig]

If you have your CD-ROM set on Master and it's the only device on IDE 2, you have a real problem. Check Control panel in Windows and see if it looks OK. Next step is Default the BIOS and check again. If you have more than one device on IDE 2 you must make sure they are set-up correctly as master/slave or in the right order as Cable Select. The Burner is the Master. Also, got enough power supply to drive everything? Last resort should nothing help is to RMA the MB for a bad IDE Controller.

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[Crashman]

You might have a bad cable. Are you using the 80-wire cables included with the board?

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[dudemang]

Ok update: I tried unhooking my 2nd hard drive on primary IDE and hooking in my cd rom to that. Booted the computer and it froze. I tried using another cd burner that i know works that was laying around the house. It froze again. I only had the burner on the secondary ide line. I will try the BIOS defaults and try it again. And yes i have enough power supply. 420 watt. And yes i'm using the stock cd rom cable that came with the mother board. I'll try using the one that came with the cd burner next.

dudeman

 

[endyen]

Look on the back of the optical drives. There are small jumpers. Are they on the pins below the letters ma, or the sl. Put the jumper on the pins below the sl, and try again.

 

[dudemang]

i already had it set to master. it's not an issue with master/slave. it freezes everytime now when the windows load screen comes up....unless i have nothing plugged in

dudeman

 

[endyen]

If it freezes at windows, it is probably a windows error. What ver are you using? Check in device manager, to see if the (uninstalled) optical drive is there. Make sure that the mobo drivers are properly loaded. Look to see that the nvidia ide controllers are there, under hdd controllers.

 

[dudemang]

Yes the nvidia ide drives are there. I'll try downloading the mobo drivers and reinstalling them (seeing how i can't use the cd >_<)

dudeman

 

[dudemang]

oh yeah, the computer will boot up with the cdrom ribbon cord plugged in with nothing attached to it. also, i went into my bios settings and tried setting my secondary ide to CDROM instead of auto and it came back with a Secondary Master Drive Incompatible ATAPI. Dunno what that means, so i put it back to auto and it booted up fine. However, still freezes if i attach a cdrom drive to the 2nd ide

dudeman

 

[endyen]

Try your second hdd as the secondary master. If it works thier, set boot device to cd, put the xp cd in the cdrom, and see if you can boot from it. If you can, try a repair install, as the windows cd drivers seem to be hooped.

 

[dudemang]

ok, so i have my cdburner on my primary line as a slave...it's on cable select though. so i'm gonna go ahead and do a quick reformat...see if that will fix these stupid problems. see ya on the flip side.

dudeman