IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

Nice to see you solved the issue with the BR!!

You can check your board revision a few ways, one would be with CPU-z in the MAINBoard tab beside the Board name you should see Rev. x.x

You can also look at the board, in the bottom corner under the PCI Slots it will be printed in white. Here is Gigabyte's page with some images if I said that funny >>
GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - FAQ

[pizzaMAN]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

I have a problem like this.
I have 2 IDE DVD drives in mi computer connected with the ga-ep25c-ds3r.
I have Windowns XP and Vista 32 bit on my computer.
Sometimes i start my pc there are hardware interrupts and the CPU usage is 20%. The my mouse and the sound and the whole system is bucking.
After a restart the problem disappears.

I think the reason for this is the jmicron IDE controller.
Drvier update did't help.
When the problem appearsare there two other solutions:
1. deactivate both DVD drives in the device manager -> problem disappears
BUT: if i want to activate them again they disappear and i have to restart the system
2. deactivate one DVD drive in the device manager and activate it again -> problem disappears
BUT: both drives disappear and I have to restart my system again the the drives are there as normal

I use the standart Intel IDE driver. I used the gsata/jmicron driver but this didn't help.
I asked this in a few forums but nobody could help me. But I think in this forum are a lot of intelligent users and I hope you can solve this.

What can I do to solve this?

regards pizzaMAN

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

I have replied to you here, no need to post the same thing twice pizzaman >>

http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/dpc-latency-spiking-special-problem-30945/

[PopeOnABomb]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

First of all, thanks for the solutions provided in this post. I used the third solution to much success.

However, now a new problem has sprung up. Prior to fixing the CD/DVD drive problem, USB flash drives worked fine on my machine. If I inserted one Windows Explorer would look like this:

C:\ - Hard Drive
E:\ - DVD Drive
F:\ - CD Drive

However, now when I plug in a USB drive or a memory card reader I see an extra cd-rom and the flash drive, and the flash drive isn't read correctly (I can browse folders but trying to actually access a file is problematic and causes Explorer to crash).

Now I see this upon pluggin in a flash drive:
C:\ - Hard Drive
E:\ - DVD Drive
F:\ - CD Drive
G:\ - CD Drive
H:\ - USB Flash Drive

Any suggestions of how these are related?

EDIT: For clarification, I'm running the Windows 7 Beta 64bit candidate, and my motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

I suggest you install the latest Chipset drivers and see if that corrects things >>

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Product_Filter.aspx?ProductID=816

[PopeOnABomb]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

Lsdmeasap,

Thanks for the link. I followed the link and downloaded the latest chipset drivers, but it didn't make a difference. I'm going to keep playing around, so if you have further suggestions let me know.

I'll be sure to post any updates.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: IDE DVD burner seen as SCSI and sloooooowww...

Hmm, I would suggest either a clean install, or a SFC /scannow to be run, let me know if you need help on how to do that

Sounds like your windows files or registry has been corrupted, and a SFC scan can fix that sometimes. You may need to reinstall all Windows updates if you do a SFC scan (Only sometimes though, and I am not sure if it is needed on win7) but everything else will remain untouched

Let me know if you need help