re: DVD drive intermittenly losing access.
Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 8:58 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by HC
(935 messages posted)
Try this on the IDE controller for the DVD drive set the Transfer mode to PI0 only,
if this cures stops the errors then the problem may be either your motherboard chipset
IDE or DMA device drivers or the drive firmware may need updating
The how to access these settings is here http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;310751&
Cheers HC
On Saturday, January 17, 2004 at 10:46 pm, DanielSan wrote:
>At random, my DVD drive seems to lose its mind. ;-) It will work sometimes but
>not others. I place a CD or DVD into the drive and nothing happens. Windows Explorer
>will state that there is nothing in the drive (there is!), or it'll find the disc
>and it'll be empty, or, sometimes (rarely) it'll work correctly.
>
>Also, during a 3D game (Black and White, for example), the computer locks up with
>a steady HDD LED for about 5 minutes before giving control again for about 10 seconds
>before locking up for 5 more minutes...etc.
>
>It does not do this during normal use of the computer (I.E., 3D rendering, video
>editing, websurfing, etc.) and seems that it only does this during games.
>
>Anyone got a clue what's going on? I'm stumped.
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