CD/DVD Drive problem

[peteyt]

So a while back I bought a DVD/CD Drive from maplin and had nothing but problems and had to replacements. It was either not reading anything/being detected at all or stuttering.

it was a S-ATA drive so while waiting for the replacement I bought an IDE one because my motherboard has both leads and was told you could use a S-ATA hard drive with a IDE CD/DVD drive.

So I bought a LG Super Multi DVD Rewriter model GH22NP20 and it seemed to work but not for long at all. It would read CDs and so on and I could rip them to my pc but every time I did, I needed to then power down and disconnect the drive, plug it back in to rip another CD.

This was ages ago and I decided to finally take out the replacement I had forgotten about, a Samsung SH-S223 - the S-ATA one. It detected a disc, the disc that came with it but when trying to launch the exe the cd/dvd drive decided to disappear from my computer and now doesn't seem to want to come up at all. However I checked BIOS and saw the cd/dvd device.

I've tried swapping the leads and stuff and nothing seems to work and can't really understand what could be the problem.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

[peteyt]

Seems to be now completely freezing windows and not allowing me to boot when plugged in.

[triston220]

There could be an issue with your motherboard. How old is your computer?

[iZoinc]

There could be an issue with your motherboard. How old is your computer?

if he had a problem with his motherboard the whole system would likely have issues it could be a missing driver or that its not installed correctly.

[peteyt]

It's a few years old now so a bit old. I found this last night and tried it http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/9e7ee260-4be7-42dd-865b-753e273fd800 and did the registry thing and rebooted pc. Window's detected the driver installed it and it came up but when I tried to load a CD it just froze, then yet again the drive just vanished saying it couldn't be found.

I heard it could be a faulty motherboard/SATA controller - Is there any way to actually identify this as there's a chance it could just be the make. I just don't want to buy a new cd drive from another company if there's a chance it will never work.

Also the other cd drive that does work is pretty confusing as I have to keep unplugging. It will usually pick up the CD but never be able to rip it or sometimes just tell me a cd is blank. This is IDE though so is using different leads.

[peteyt]

I bought a replacement a different LG that is S-ATA and while it was slow at first seems to be working managed to put a few CD's on. It seems to occasionally stutter when first playing a CD but then goes normal. Hopefully this will last :D

Thanks all