hi all, i recetly recieved as a gift from my son a litescribe writer, it was failing to burn anything and didnt even show up as a device most of the time. since then they have replaced the drive with this one. Sony/NEC Optiarc OEM AD-7201S 20x SATA DVD Writer (With Lightscribe) i just cant seem to be able to get it installed as such. i purchased a SATA cable Code: http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11220704/Sata_Cable.jpg as it didnt come with it and i also got a molex converter Code: http://img.hexus.net/v2/dvdoctor/technobackground/sata/Molex-SATA_TN.jpg for it as well.. now how do i go about getting it installed. i have tried every possible cable configuration within my tower but to no avail. am i missing something. sometimes when i use different cable configs it shows in my bios as listed but my pc dont want to start up or if it does it takes an age to bootup then everything is slow to open if it opens at all. there are no switches etc on the back of the drive. do i need to make changes in the bios for it to work please help me. also incase you need the info im running vista ultimate big big thanx for taking time out
1. Make sure that your PC isn't configured to try to boot from the optical drive. It will wait a while before it gives up. Set the BIOS boot order to boot from the hard drive. 2. If Windows doesn't see the drive that's a whole different problem. I will never run Vista so I'm afraid I can't provide specific help. There should be no jumpers to set with a SATA drive.
thanx for the reply m8, apprecaite the help.. im pretty sure that my current liteon boots from the drive. so i will need to have it set as hdd, 1st drive and new drive i want added for it to work.. i shall try this over the weekend as i will be away. ill get back to you through this topic and let you no the outcome. thanx again
Yes, for testing purposes I would delete all of the settings to boot from the optical drive and just boot from the hdd for speed. We are trying to eliminate the obvious things first.
@poi5on I see nothing in the TC's post that indicates that he connected it to a PATA port. Thread hijacking is frowned upon. Please stick with your own post.
ok buddy sorry about the late reply. been very busy, anyway i managed to have another few goes at trying to get it to work. i changed the bios to boot from 1 hdd, 2 floppy 3 cd rom didnt want to go past the boot screen this way. i still cant figure it out. i do however have the manual for my bios etc if this is any help to you i can upload it to a free host also do i connect both the SATA cable + SATA power cable ty my new drive, if so this is what im doing. this is my current bios configuration if it helps. IDE Channel 0 Master --- Maxtor Hdd IDE Channel 0 Slave --- None IDE Channel 1 Master --- LiteOn Dvdrw IDE Channel 1 Slave --- None IDE Channel 2 Master --- None IDE Channel 3 Master --- None 1st boot -- cd rom 2nd -- Floppy 3rd -- Hdd thanx for the help once again mick
I went back to your original thread. From what you are describing, this drive appears to be behaving the same as the first one. What is your motherboard make/model? Easier for me to find the manual.
hi, thanx for the speedy reply, anyway here is the complete manual for my pc. http://rapidshare.com/files/192205274/adventpc_manual.rar and if you dont want tothat here are my complete pc specs Advent T9002 PC CPU AMD Athlon 64 processor 3400+ BIOS Phoenix-Award BIOS. Press the Delete key to enter Motherboard ECS 760-M Rev:1.1A Memory 1.5gig DDR RAM - PC3200 Hard Drive 200GB Maxtor Maxtor 6B200P0 -- with 500gig philips and 1tb buffalo externals CD Drive Lite-On DVDRW SHOW-1633S Floppy Drive Floppy disk drive fitted Video Card ati radeon x1500 series Sound Card Realtek AC'97 audio Speakers - my own surround system Network Card Realtek 8139 / 810x (Onboard) Modem SmartLink 56K V.92 PCI modem Ports - Front 1x 7-in-1 Card Reader 1x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) 2x USB 2.0 1x Headphone 1x Microphone Ports - Back 1x PS/2 Keyboard 1x PS/2 Mouse 1x Serial 1x Parallel 1x VGA 4x USB 2.0 1x IEEE 1394 (FireWire) 1x LAN 1x Microphone 1x Line-out 1x Line-in 1x Modem 1x Telephone Case Jupiter chassis Keyboard Advent PS/2 keyboard Mouse Advent PS/2 mouse Motherboard Information Form Factor: Micro-ATX Size, 244mm*244mm CPU Support: Socket 754 for AMD K8 Athlon 64 processor High-performance Hyper Transport CPU interface Support transfer rate of 1600/1200/800/400 mega-transfers per second System Memory: 2x 184-pin DDR DIMM socket support up to 2 GB Support DDR400/333/266/200 DDR SDRAM Chipset: SiS 760 & 964 North Bridge: SiS 760 South Bridge: SiS 964 Audio Chipset: Realtek ALC658 6-channel audio CODEC Video: Integrated SiS Ultra256 2D/3D Graphics Bios Specifications: Award BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification Internal Connectors: 1x 20-pin ATX Power Supply Connector & 4-pin 12V Connector 1x FDD connector supports two 360K~2.88MB FDDs 2x IDE connectors 2x USB 2.0 headers support additional 4 USB Ports 1x SPDIF out header 1x Front panel switch/LED header 1x Front panel audio header CD in/ AUX in headers CPUFAN/CASFAN connectors
OK, here's what you have according to the ECS website STORAGE Support by SiS® 964 4 x Ultra DMA133/100/66 devices 2 x Serial ATA devices RAID0 & RAID1 configuration You know what I'm beginning to think? I don't think you can connect an optical drive to these SATA ports, and that the SATA is only for a RAID HDD config and that's why you're having this problem. I just looked at the manual and it say NOTHING about supporting SATA optical devices (even that in itself doesn make sense). In fact, the SATA controller on this mobo is a SiS 964 SATA RAID controller that is apparently ONLY for SATA RAID HDD arrays. At this point, I'd suggest opening a support ticket with ECS and verifying that optical drives are supported with this motherboard. There may be some that disagree with my conclusion, but that's all I can come up with considering the "odd" configuration of the mobo. I'm pretty sure you will need to get another optical drive, one that is PATA and not SATA.
thanx, ok i have left all the comments i made here on the ECW site. will await there reply, i will also reply back here and let you no as well. i hope thats not the case as my 30day return has expired and this would be the second drive i have had, maybe also if this is the case then the original drive i also got from the same place was not faulty at all. anyway big thanx for the help, its was more than appreciated
BTW, I did a quick google. There appear to be several discussions of problems connecting SATA optical drives to this controller.
yeah i googled it as well, to be honest im not the greatest at pc tech stuff and i just dont understand it all thus the reason i came here for help lol
