Cdrom "skips"

[Kav 0]

Very annoying problem I never really had in win9x:

 

The cdrom refuses to read certain cd's that do work on other pc's (Intel based..) the cdrom itself is fine cause i placed it in a different pc (intel) and it worked fine with cds i cant run on my system (amd).

 

Someone suggested changing the timeing of it. I changed PIO mode in bios from 3 to 2 but that doesnt seem to do much especially cause its on UDMA anyway. What more can i try?

 

 

athlon 650

k7m bios v1008

win2k pro

cdrom: Aopen 936E-AKU

 

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[Damien 0]

You might try installing the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers from the website - have you installed these drivers at all?

 

Also try putting the CDROM on a different IDE controller, and switching it from Master to Slave or vice-versa.

 

Finally try another drive with your machine, there may be an incompatability between the cd drive and your motherboard.

[Kav 0]

Will get those 4in1 drivers asap

 

btw. those 4in1 are in the NT section and there is no mention of them in the win2k section..this aint a prob?

 

update 2 : they wont run, installer aborts when it detects 2k

 

Possible to install stand alone drivers?

[This message has been edited by Kav (edited 01 June 2000).]

 

[This message has been edited by Kav (edited 01 June 2000).]

[Palos 0]

Try to force its controller to run in PIO mode, instead of UDMA. You can do that from device manager, IDE controllers i think

[Damien 0]

There are sone beta 4 in 1 drivers avalible for Win 2K (V4.22) If you look at fargo's thread - Via Drivers V4.22 in this forum, you'll find the url from with you can download them.

 

[This message has been edited by Damien (edited 02 June 2000).]

[Damien 0]

Update - 4.22 is out of beta - you can download this and AGP driver v4.03 from Via's website - these both install under Win 2K