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Motherboard causing CD-RW drive problems?

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Drazula

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Hi,

I have a Samsung SM-348B DVD/CDRW Combo drive. It worked fine on my Epox EP-8RDA+ (Nforce2 chipset). I bought a DVD+RW drive, so I wanted to put the Samsung on my wife's PC. Her PC is a Biostar M7VIT Pro (KT400 Chipset). When I run the SM-348B on her PC, it does not recognize blank CDs at all. It does not recognize written CDRs either. It DOES see DVDs, written DVD+R, and commercial CDs. If I move it back to my PC it works fine.

I've upgraded the MB Bios, upgraded the VIA drivers and even upgraded the SM-348B firmware. Nothing has fixed this problem. Other hardware on the PC is a Athlon XP 2000, Maxtor 40GB drive, a PNY Geforce3 graphics card and 512MB Crucial 2100 memory.

Does anybody have any ideas on this?

Thanks.
 
I'm afraid that there's nothing left you could do to get it working... (you did try different IDE cables/ channels?) also - what OS - are both PCs running the same one?
 
Yeah, I tried new IDE cables. And both systems are running Windows XP Pro. I even tried updating the ASPI layer driver. I'm stumped.
 
mine does the same thing. sometimes it reads all cds but most of the time only dvds. i dont believe its the mobo but it could possiably be. try another dvd rom and see if it does it. that how you can figure out if it is the mobo or the dvdrom
 
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