Re: DVD drive issue with P5W DH Deluxe

In my bios under IDE configuration I have configure sata as standard IDE. I'm still thinking it's a bios issue and I was wondering if standard Ide is the correct setting.

Is there a SATA Jmicron port? My Lite-on drive is a SATA. In the main menu my hard drive is the third IDE master and my DVD drive is the fourth IDE slave or some weird reason. Also every so often when I start the computer I get a little box that comes up that says I AM SERVICE!!! and it's some ASUS acpi utility program. It has buttons on it but you have to go to Task Manager to close it. I"m not sure if maybe it's related to this DVD drive issue and I have no idea what it is. Any more ideas?
"Brown Bear" <bxmet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8vk723p0s993hf53g3ovd5d6c695rb0964@xxxxxxxxxx
Have you selected ACHI or Raid mode for the ICH7R controller in the
Bios? If you have, there is some known issues with Vista and the
Intel driver, not sure if it is related to ypur problem though.
Perhaps you should try connecting your Lite-On drive to the Jmicron
controller.

On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:52:15 -0700, "Randy" <rowings@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm having trouble with getting a working DVD drive on this board (a new
build). I originally had a Samsung IDE drive (SH 182D) connected to the
Primary IDE connector on the motherboard. I was able to install Windows
Vista with this configuration. After getting my system up and running I
tried to play a DVD and it caused a reboot. I turned off the auto restart
feature and tried it again to read the blue screen details but they didn't
help much. I assumed it was a DVD drive issue and ordered another DVD
drive, this time a SATA drive. This drive is a Lite-On LH-20A1L-05-LS. I
originally connected it to the SATA 3 connector but the BIOS failed to
recognize the drive, and also failed to recognize my hard drive which was
connected to SATA 1. I tried connecting the DVD drive to SATA 4, which
allowed the BIOS to recognize both it and the hard drive now. I am having
write problems now and it still crashes the computer when I try to play a
commercial DVD. I can play the DVD's that I have burned myself, but not the
commercially produced ones. In addition, I can't get it to burn a DVD, I
only get error messages. Obviously something is not right. I'm thinking
that there might be some other configuration issue I don't know about. Can
anyone please tell me which connectors I should be using on the motherboard
and if there are any BIOS settings that I need to change to make this work.
I tried to download a firmware update for the drive but it was not listed on
Lite-On's web page.

My configuration:
O/S- Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit.
Hard drive- Western Digital 320 GB on SATA 1 (Not a RAID setup)
DVD- Lite-ON connected to SATA 4
2 GB DDR2 RAM
ATI X1950 pro video card with Catalyst 7.3 drivers
No other optical or hard drives attached.


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