tsst h552d and philips drom6216 don't do anything but blink led when I try to eject. I have tried every "fix" (remove filters, un & reinstall) and xp can't find drivers. System is Gateway gt4015E from '05 and worked great till this. The drivers that xp uses for my laptop were listed as the drivers for these on (shhhh)those other forums and seem to be present on this system. Any IDEAS!
Try using the software eject function instead of the button.. IIRC it's right click on the drive icon and eject from the pop up menu. The samsung may have a stretched tray belt (stock fault) and philips drives are notorious for funky faults. It could be the philips drive causing the whole problem.. they get stuck in some kind of disk in mode. I use hdparm to force reset my old philips burner on one machine.. it always starts with a "disk mounted" icon though there is no disk in the drive and messes up the other drive on the cable until it is fixed.. Try unplugging it and see if the samsung is normal again.
Well I tried that on both drives and had a guru run sys conf util on the machine and no dice. He said the drives are bad. Put in an old drive and still can't load drivers. This drive will open and close. Could the problem lie in mobo or bios? I keep geting errors with the flash reader not responding at shutdown too. Is IDE on this p.o.s. crashing or something?
BTW guru guy did try the drives that were in the box in other machines and they didn't work on those. But this old Creative 52x is still not loading in xp.
That's unfortunate.. My guess would be one of the drives has shorted somehow and taken out the ide controller on the mobo. It has to be the primary suspect if both drives are bad and the channel still isn't working. Is there a hdd or anything plugged into the board on the same cable? if that is working then there may be something else going on. My next step would be to have the hdd and cd drive on the same cable and see if the problem clears when run into the other ide port. If that is the case then probably the controller on the mobo is dead though no harm updating the bios if an update is available, solutions include buying a pci-ide card.
Thanks. I did try to run tsst on same channel with hdd but i have not run the old creative. hdd is running on primary channel. I'll try the old cd drive on that channel. If it still won't load drivers but hdd is working then what do figure that means? I could go to SATA cd drives if secondary IDE is toast. Then I don't need the pci card.
Tried creative drive on primary IDE. Can't find drivers again. Maybe IDE is working fine. Back to square 1:>( Hdd is working on primary IDE. CD drives won't work. Has to be an xp driver/config issue right?
Sounds very much like it. XP does have a few funny aspi faults, but I thought they were solved a long time ago. Have you tried updating the ide controller drivers through device manager? That was one suggested fix. I'm not an XP user these days so things like tinkering with the registry have left my stored memory. HP have a page about troubleshooting drives which may have the solution.. see if anything sounds like it might work http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=us&docname=bph07146 Looks like your other dvd drives may be ok as well then, possibly with corrupted firmware or something like it. Will drop a link to this topic with a couple of people who are more hot with XP and see what they can come up with
Do you have a system chipset driver, either as a download or on a CD? The drives may work fine but your chipset driver controlling the IDE bus may be borked.
I haven't looked to much into mobo as the cause cuz the numbskulls on the other forums just keep saying "xp has all the drives for your drive". This is a gateway system so ther may be a chipset download. HDD is working on IDE channel 0 though so may be that all 3 drives are bad. I haven't verified that the Creative drive will work on another box. Thanks for the ideas I've gotten more from 4 hrs. on this forum than 2 weeks on the rest. I may not be back to this thread till tom.... later today. I'm off to play with bash commands in linux!!
I would think three drives going bad at once would be pretty rare. Did this happen of its own accord or after you rebuilt / changed something in the system?
two drives were on the system. The Creative cd-rom I gave a guy $3 to try it on the system. It opens and can read media to some extent but xp hardware "wizard" can't find drivers for any three drives. I burned an .iso in one drive then took it out of that drive to put in the other to make copies. The other drive wouldn't open (philips) and then tsst drive wouldn't open. does that help or just confuse u too?
It's not really very clear. Which drives have been tested where, which are in the problem system, and which have what faults?
sorry that last one was kinda backwards. as they happened 1. buned .iso then ejected from tsst 2. closed tsst then tried to open philips, it would not open LED flashed and that's all 3. tried to open tsst again now it won't do any thing but mock with lights 4. tried a kabillion "fixes" 5. took tower to guru man as stated earlier. he tried the drives in other towers and they didn't work. 6. gave $3 for creative drive to try cuz guru said tsst & philips were @#$!%#$#$@! 7. creative will open but xp still won't load drivers for it. 8. have creative now dangelin' out the side on IDE channel with HDD and still not having any parties. xp no likey cd-rom!
try ejecting the drives when you very first turn on the PC, in the BIOS (you may need to try several times as CD-ROMs automatically close themselves if found open in the BIOS), if they still sit there flashing, the drives or the IDE interface are dead. If they work in another PC with a different IDE cable, definitely the IDE interface, if they don't, the drives are dead.
