For some reason windows xp pro (latest version) takes 15 minutes to load in my machine all I did was install a second double layer burner I made one a master and one a slave one the same cable with jumpers the bios sees both drives and I dont believe it thinks they are the same drive as the lights dont both light up at the same time. However again windows takes super long time to boot with minimal hard drive loading. With both drives disconnected windows takes 5 seconds to completely load. I get 0 errors while loading with the cd burners with either drive installed it takes the same amount of time (I reset the jumpers etc). Any thoughts? Im going to try and download new drivers. But what is puzzling to me is my original burner has worked fine and caused no serious time delays while booting before and nothing software wise has changed. Its only after I installed the 2nd burner did this problem start. Any ideas?
Are both dvd-rw drives recognized in device manager? Look for the yellow exclamation marks. You may want to configure the main drive-primary,and the second drive as cable select.Some pcs call for that set up. Double check those pins and wire connectors.Sometime those wire connectors can pop out.I've had that happen a time or 2. Another thing: Is that IDE cable a 40 wire or 80 wire cable? You'll need 80 wire. See if any of that helps! Good Luck
Interestingly enough drives do require memory usage. I checked the stats for my drive an LG GSA 4163B and its minimum is 512mb. I have 2gb of ram and it takes about 3 to 4 minutes for full load of windows. I do not know what yours requires but it could definately slow down the system.
My cable is 40 pin (someone mentioned 80 pin whats that????) no way it would take that no room not enough pins. I have tried it with only one drive installed and still the same problem. As for memory I had 512mb with a burner for at least 1 year with no problems in this machine. When I reinstall the old drive it still takes 15 minutes and im not exagerating.
It called 80 wire cable.It still has the 40 pins.It just has double the wires and that wire is thinner. You'd have to put both the 40 wire and 80 wire cable together to really see the difference.Same width-ribbon wise/just thinner wire. Most of the harddrives and dvd drives come with their own cable,which is the 80 wire.It is highly recommended to use the 80 wire if they came packaged with a drive.I know quite a bit of speed is to gain with the 80 wire,and some drives will not work with the 40 wire.Just something to double check. Interesting stats 9mmruger1. My benq 1620s specs calls for minimum of 128 mbs and the p-3.Not sure of my 1640. It didn't even come delivered with its original box.
Thanks for all the help I figured it out my bios hates two burners on the same cable then when I tried just one burner I didnt set the jumpers correctly. Windows now boots in 4 seconds and everything works fine. Thanks for the help all
