Well, maybe it’s not that bad, but I just upgraded my PC from a 440BX, Slot 1 platform to an AMD Athlon 850 supported by a Gigabyte GA-7ZX (Rev 5), and now my Mitsumi 40x CD-ROM drive is misbehaving.
The bahaviour is intermittant, depending on the CD inserted, and it does not affect home-burned CD’s. It will spin up the CD, and during that time I can browse the CD, run apps off of it, etc., but then it makes a whining noise like the read head is jumping from one end of the CD to the other, the CD, spins down, spins back up, makes the read head noise again, spins down, ad nauseum.
CD’s affected include the Drivers CD that came with the mainboard, Quake 3 Arena, and WordPerfect 2000. No Microsoft wares are affected (like Win98, Office 2000, Visio).
The worst part is, I’ve already tried another CD-ROM Drive, I’ve reformatted the HDD and reloaded the OS, I’ve updated the BIOS, I’ve downloaded and installed the latest Via 4-in-1 drivers, tried multiple read-ahead and speed optimization settings in the Windows system setup, I actually located and downloaded drivers for the drive and installed those, I’ve memorized the entire BIOS, and I’ve contacted the vendors(mainboard and CD-ROM drive, both say it’s the other’s fault)responsible for this crap.
Any suggestions?
