I recently installed a dvd burner dual layer on my pc. and I agonised about which drive to replace dvd player or cd-rw I decided the dvd would go…i don’t remember why, but as I discovered when wanted to copy dvd to dvd i had to copy the dvd to my hard drive and then to the dvd burner. what a pain…so i decided to replace cd-rw with the dvd player, figured duh?? why duplicate drives…well to make a long story short………..when i try to access the burner the pc just restarts it self. i have check jumpers, bios, tried switching the master slave on them both nothing works. after some…..reading i am assuming this is a power issue???? let me just say there are three power conections for these drives 1. dvd burner 2. dvd player 3. floppy and on the primary i have two hard drives with two additional power plugins and one that would plug into a floppy. can these be switched around maybe main hd dvd player and floppy and on the other dvd burner and second hard drive???? any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!!!!!!
no changes when i moved power conections around. so switched it back to dvd rw and cd rw and well i had forgoted that i was haveing some probs before i tried the change but i blu it off. so inresponce to what i am running xp home upgrade from me on a gateway 2000. intially i did not have this problem so i am really baffeled as it is now the way it was before i changed it. dvd rw is dl io the cd rw gateway osb and dvd rom is mashita or panisonic depending what info i read it is a 2mhz sys I am at a loss………
I was originally able to use the dvd rw with the cd rw. it worked slow but worked. the only thing i have majorly changed is upgradeing my trend micro from 2006 to 2007 but why would that be an issue??????????
anyway, so as a last ditch effort i disconected the cd rw and only ran the dvd rw and the same thing restarted when i tried to start the dvd. oh I also ran spyware, virus protection ect… prior to this found some spyware but cleaned it up and still have the same problems?
now I have heard that INcd causes problems so I removed it but no change. I really feel at this point this is a windows xp thing but not sure. if I disconect both drives and uninstall drivers and then re boot will that make any changes????