DVD Writer Help

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I just installed a Dynex DVD Writer to my system. I'm gettin
something strange though when I check in the Hardware manager. Both
the writer and my Harddrive have the same location 0 (0). there are
on separate IDE cables. What's going on? Help!
 
Check for your make of DVD drive, that the designation jumpers are correct.

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message I just installed a Dynex DVD Writer to my system. I'm gettin
something strange though when I check in the Hardware manager. Both
the writer and my Harddrive have the same location 0 (0). there are
on separate IDE cables. What's going on? Help!
 
Kidtwist21 said:
I just installed a Dynex DVD Writer to my system. I'm gettin
something strange though when I check in the Hardware manager. Both
the writer and my Harddrive have the same location 0 (0). there are
on separate IDE cables. What's going on? Help!
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Hardware manager? Do you mean Device Manager? Or perhaps you mean the
Disk Management part of the Computer Manager? If it's the former,
please explain what you mean by location.

If it's the latter, you're probably talking about the labels on the list
of physical drives. For instance on my (Windows 2000) machine, my
master drive on the primary IDE channel is a hard drive. That labels says:

Disk 0
Basic
37.27 Gb
Online

To the left of the label is the logical drives on that physical drive.
In my case, it's just one logical drive -- C.

I have a single drive on my secondary IDE channel, a DVD-RW that's labeled:

CDRom 0
DVD (H:)
Online

Both drives are marked with a "0", but that's ok since they are
different types. If I've guessed badly at what you're asking, I'm
sorry. If not, I don't think it's anything to worry about.
 
Yea, It's the device manager. When i looked at the location, they
both said 0 (0). I moved it last night from the master of the
secondary IDE to the slave of the secondary IDE. Now, both my DVD
drive and my CD drive share the same location, 1 (1). My Harddrive
and my CD drive both have their jumpers set to cable select. I have
the DVD drive set to slave, because i don't know what cable select
means. Regardless, in either case, it is really slowing the machine
down. I have 256 MB on a Pentium 4, but the machine is very
sluggish! I don't know what to do!
 
Kidtwist21 said:
Yea, It's the device manager. When i looked at the location, they
both said 0 (0). I moved it last night from the master of the
secondary IDE to the slave of the secondary IDE. Now, both my DVD
drive and my CD drive share the same location, 1 (1). My Harddrive
and my CD drive both have their jumpers set to cable select. I have
the DVD drive set to slave, because i don't know what cable select
means. Regardless, in either case, it is really slowing the machine
down. I have 256 MB on a Pentium 4, but the machine is very
sluggish! I don't know what to do!
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My C: drive and DVD-RW are masters on the primary and secondary IDE
controller (onboard) respectively. They both indicate Location 0 (0),
but I am not experiencing the difficulties you describe.

If you're using a "selecting cable" you can set your drives to cable
select instead of having to set them as master and slave. Selecting
cables generally have the plugs marked master and slave, so you should
be able to tell from that.

I would make sure that's straightened out. If that's properly set, or
if setting it does not get rid of your problem, you could remove the
optical drive to troubleshoot. If the sluggishness is unaffected by the
removal of the drive, you can probably assume it's not the cause.
 
Grinder,
Just wanted to thank you for all your help. Also, could be sluggish
becuase of Memory? Before i put the DVD in, it was running fine.
 
Kidtwist21 said:
Just wanted to thank you for all your
help. Also, could be sluggish
becuase of Memory?
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Maybe. Are you running Windows XP?
Before i put the DVD in, it was running fine.
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That's a pretty good indication that the drive is somehow mixed up in
this. Make sure the jumpers are set correctly, and report back.
 
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