Need a little info if you all don't mind. I have an Asus P5GDC Deluxe Mainboard with a P4 3.4 CPU running Win XP Home. I have two Seagate SATA HArd Drives which work fine, but the SATA Plextor (PX-716SA) DVD Burner has some issues. About 75% of the time when I turn the system on, everything is fine. However, the other 25%, is when I'm seeing an issue. When it boots I'll see the HDD IDE LED on the system stays on Solid and I'll check and the DVD drive is not showing up in the system at all. Not in the device Manager, nor in MY Computer. It will open and I can hear it seek a disk when I have something in it, but since the system is not seeing it, nothing happens. Also, it will do it when is it seen too a lot of times. It will happen if the Drive has a problem reading a disk and errors out, but most recently, it seems to happen when the Screen saver has been active for about 15 -30 minutes. It doesn't happen right away, but you can tell when it does. You'll see the HDD LED on solid and when you look the DVD drive is gone. I have set the Bios to SATA only and SATA + PATA and still get the same issue. It is driving me crazy. Has anyone else run into this issue or heard of anything like it? I'm beginning to think I should have stayed with a regular IDE DVD Burner instead. Its funny that I have this problem, but when I first put the system together, the WinXP CD saw the SATA DVD drive just fine and installed XP without an issue.....I've heard of other having a problem getting XP to install with an SATA Optical drive. Thanks Patrick
have you scanned for viruses & spyware in safe mode ? have you checked event viewer for errors ? also does the drive work correctly in another system ? with old IDE if the HDD LED was constantly on it indicated that the IDE cable was connected the wrong way around but i don't thing you can connect a SATA drive the wrong way around
No problems as far as Virus or Spyware are present. If I had another SATA system I would try it. As far as the Event Viewer goes, this is all I get. The device'Plextor DVDR PX-716A____1.10\5&2aea0d92&0&0.0.0) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal. This is from the Plug & Play Manager Patrick
no, go into event viewer (RightClick MyComputer > Manage > Events) and check all the latest errors..double click on them for more information, and post the errors here
