Optical drive help

[Underage_Thinker]

I have just recently built me a a new computer from new parts and parts I have salvaged from another computer and i am having an issue with a optical drive i have pulled out of my old computer. It is a HP DVD640 DVD and CD burner do it all etc. But the problem i am having with it is that when i i ever try to put a CD or DVD or any disk in there of any kind it freezes my computer and I have to restart. It doesn't even load up whats on the disk before it freezes, it just shows it empty then freezes. I have updated the firmware to the latest and to the best of my knowledge it doesn't have any drivers, so if somebody could help me i would most appreciate b/c i don't want to spend $60+ on a new one.

Here (http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c177/killer604/Computer_HELP/) Here is a link to some pics of my computer. The first two have some info about my drive. The others are some i took earlier for a different purpose but you can look at them if you want.

[Elscire]

are all plugs plugged in correctly? and also make sure which plug you plugged it into. there are 2 IED flatplugs,
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e223/Charatman/untitled-9.jpg
the main plug is the one with another outlet that has another IED plug.
and what brand is the dvd drive? sometimes some brands don't co-operate with each other (like Asus and Ultra)and that could lead to damaging a component, which did fried my motherbard.

[Underage_Thinker]

Yes i have them properly configured and has the jumpers on correctly. Also another bit of information is that when i try to start up my computer with a disk already in the drive it won't. I just sits loading windows forever.
O ya and the drive brands are Asus and HP

[Skhorpion]

This is a thread I like. I like it because you gave enough information to actually help you. Thanks.

Anyway, back on topic. Tell me what the jumpers are set as and how you have the drives configured on the cable. It should go, MOBO > SLAVE > MASTER. Do you have the jumpers set as one being master and one slave or are they both on cable seslect? Have you tried unhooking the second drive and only trying the problem drive? Have you tried switching from secondary IDE controller to primary? Have you tried using a different IDE cable?

It can be one of four things. Bad drive, configured wrong (or in a way it just doesnt like), bad IDE controller, or bad IDE cable.

[Elscire]

hmm the same problem occured to me when i tried to install a sony dvd burner, maybe you need to reformat the computer for it to run register it as a component?

[Aηdy]

Reformat is always the last option (before throwing it out the window). can you test it on another pc? And try having just one drive plugged in at a time.

[Underage_Thinker]

Well i solved the problem for now. I have been having two hard drive a 7 year old 13GB IDE drive and my much newer 200GB Serial ATA drive. I had had my windows on my old small drive and everything else on my better drive but something went bad and i just put windows on a partition on my 200Gb drive and took out my old drive. So i had an open IDE channel and i just decided to put my other Optical drive in there. So now i just have one drive per channel. And that solved it. Now as long as i don't decide to add a IDE Hard drive i should be fine. So Thanks guys for all the help i appreciate the thought. Who know i may have to get an IDE hard drive someday;)

[Skhorpion]

Ya they were fuxxing with each other. If you plan on OCing anytime i'd dump that sata drive... unless you want corrupt partitions.

[Underage_Thinker]

what? Dose overcolocking somhow mess up the sata bus or somthing? I May eventualy overcolock my GPU, tho it is not that urgent.

[0=]

No, overclocking only messes with the processor you're overclocking, and depending on what you do, the RAM. Btw you can get a DVD+/-RW drive for 10 bucks. If you overclock I suggest a shitload of fans, or just a couple tornadoes, although they require a fan controlelr so damn loud, or liquid cooling, also check to see if there will be any issues with the processor you're attempting to overclock.

[Underage_Thinker]

Well I would have to see this $10 dvd burner and as for overclocking my GPU i would probly just have to get a new VGA cooler, but as i said that is somthing that i may do eventualy.

[Skhorpion]

No, overclocking only messes with the processor you're overclocking, and depending on what you do, the RAM. Btw you can get a DVD+/-RW drive for 10 bucks. If you overclock I suggest a shitload of fans, or just a couple tornadoes, although they require a fan controlelr so damn loud, or liquid cooling, also check to see if there will be any issues with the processor you're attempting to overclock.

LOL noob. Overclocking changes the speed of the whole system bus. The bus includes communication between everything. Most all motherboards have AGP/PCI locks so the speed there stays the same but i dont think there are any for SATA. SATA isnt very tolerant of speed changes.

[0=]

Well I'm sorry if I misinformed someone, the older overclocking techniques must have been the ones only affecting the processor, or none :/

[Underage_Thinker]

Are you saying i can't just raise the speed of the FSB or the speed of my memory without it affecting my sata bus, Well i gusse wether or not I can realy dosn't matters b/c if i ever do overclock it would be orverclocking my graphics car, and I don't beleve my graphics card has a sata bus:D

[Aηdy]

I have SATA and it doesnt state anywhere in the book that i cant overclock through the bios b/cos of SATA

[Skhorpion]

I have SATA and it doesnt state anywhere in the book that i cant overclock through the bios b/cos of SATA

No shit, it wasn't meant to limit overclocking but most people's SATA drives become unstable once the FSB gets so high, including me. I'm pretty sure that when i raised the fsb and my 80gb SATA drive had corrupt partitions that SATA crapped out at that speed.

Are you saying i can't just raise the speed of the FSB or the speed of my memory without it affecting my sata bus, Well i gusse wether or not I can realy dosn't matters b/c if i ever do overclock it would be orverclocking my graphics car, and I don't beleve my graphics card has a sata bus:D

The sata bus refers to from the drive to the board, once it gets past the controller it is considered part of the FSB. Have fun OC'ing your vid card :) i got like 10fps more from OC'ing. Make sure it doesnt heat up like the dickens though.

Well I'm sorry if I misinformed someone, the older overclocking techniques must have been the ones only affecting the processor, or none :/

You can still overclock without changing the FSB, by adjusting the multiplier, if you want a good performance increase though you'll want to up the FSB.