Windows doesn't finish booting with new DVD burner

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Darren Garrison

I asked a question a couple of weeks back about a DVD burner where the drive
tray refused to stay closed. Well, tonight I bought a replacement burner, and
now I'm having new problems.

The burner is a Lite on Lh 20A1P. The mobo is an Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I set the
drive to slave with my other DVD burner as master, both on the secondary
channel. BIOS recognizes the drive. XP starts booting-- and stays on the
splash screen with the little bar running across the bottom, never finishing
booting. I reboot in safe mode. The drivers start loading, the drivers stop
loading, system freezes again. I remove the old drive, make the new drive the
Master, reboot. Still XP freezes. I reboot, set new drive to CS. Windows
freezes. I put the old drive back in by itself, Windows boots fine. Bootable
CDs do boot from the new drive (into DOS mode). I downloaded the newest BIOS
flash for the DVD-R drive, but when I booted into DOS to flash it, it said Win32
was required.

Any tips appreciated.
 
Darren Garrison said:
I asked a question a couple of weeks back about a DVD burner where the
drive
tray refused to stay closed. Well, tonight I bought a replacement burner,
and
now I'm having new problems.

The burner is a Lite on Lh 20A1P. The mobo is an Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I
set the
drive to slave with my other DVD burner as master, both on the secondary
channel. BIOS recognizes the drive. XP starts booting-- and stays on the
splash screen with the little bar running across the bottom, never
finishing
booting. I reboot in safe mode. The drivers start loading, the drivers
stop
loading, system freezes again. I remove the old drive, make the new drive
the
Master, reboot. Still XP freezes. I reboot, set new drive to CS.
Windows
freezes. I put the old drive back in by itself, Windows boots fine.
Bootable
CDs do boot from the new drive (into DOS mode). I downloaded the newest
BIOS
flash for the DVD-R drive, but when I booted into DOS to flash it, it said
Win32
was required.
Click to expand...

Disconnect all drives. Connect the new drive as master on the primary. Try
an boot off a bootable CD.

Sounds like you may have a bad cable, mainboard or drive.
 
Disconnect all drives. Connect the new drive as master on the primary. Try
an boot off a bootable CD.

Sounds like you may have a bad cable, mainboard or drive.
Click to expand...

As I mentioned in the original message, I can boot from the drive. I booted
from it with a command-line rescue disc in hopes of flashing the firmware on the
drive, but the firmware utility downloaded from Lite-On requires being run from
Win32. So the problem isn't with the drive-- it is with Window's recognition of
the drive. And the other DVD burner is recognized and booted to on the same
cable in any settings. Windows XP just stops responding directly after loading
"mup.sys"
 
Okay, here's a update to my problem. I left XP running for a long time. After
around 10 minutes, the desktop wallpaper DOES pop up. After another 10 minutes,
the startup programs finish loading and the desktop icons show up. I haven't
waited long enough for any application to open, so I don't know if any would,
eventually. But as soon as the wallpaper shows up, I CAN ctrl-alt-del and bring
up task manager.
 
Leave the PC as long as it takes to start up fully (20 mins ???)
Have a good look at this things properties.& behaviour.
Go into the motherboard's BIOS setup & see how its identified there..
As the machine starts up 1sr few secs the 1st screen (white on black plain
text)
will quickly list the hardware ..memory ..etc. ...press 'Pause' (top row of
keyboard farthest right key)
to look at this startup screen
My PC will do this sort of super slow start 'cause of the DVD if I put a
DVDRAM disc
in 'cause it don't really understand them.
Mouse
 
Leave the PC as long as it takes to start up fully (20 mins ???)
Have a good look at this things properties.& behaviour.
Go into the motherboard's BIOS setup & see how its identified there..
As the machine starts up 1sr few secs the 1st screen (white on black plain
text)
will quickly list the hardware ..memory ..etc. ...press 'Pause' (top row of
keyboard farthest right key)
to look at this startup screen
My PC will do this sort of super slow start 'cause of the DVD if I put a
DVDRAM disc
in 'cause it don't really understand them.
Mouse
Click to expand...

I finally fixed the problem. I already had the latest drivers for the mobo's
IDE bus installed. But (with the drive disconnected so I could actually use the
system) I reinstalled the exact same version of the exact same drivers, and
everything was fixed. Annoying. (My HD is SATA, so the burner(s) are the only
thing on PATA).
 
I finally fixed the problem. I already had the latest drivers for the mobo's
IDE bus installed. But (with the drive disconnected so I could actually use the
system) I reinstalled the exact same version of the exact same drivers, and
everything was fixed. Annoying. (My HD is SATA, so the burner(s) are the only
thing on PATA).
Click to expand...

Your board uses nForce2 chipset. Many people, when
installing the Forceware driver pack, elect not to install
the nVidia IDE driver at all, rather leaving the original MS
driver which will work fine (I used to use the same board or
close enough, an A7N8X-Dlx)
 
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