RhysAndrews
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Hey guys!
I recently got a new computer, and so my old one has retired into its final years as a HTPC. It has these specs:
AM2 Athlon64 6400+ CPU (3.2ghz)
2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz RAM
8600GTS
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2 Motherboard
Generic 500w PSU
Leadtek TV Tuner
The DVD-Writer in there had worked fine previously, and I took it out to install windows on my new computer, then returned it to the HTPC to reformat it / install Windows 7 64-bit RC.
Windows 7 took about 12 hours to install. Yes, I'm serious. But once it installed, all seemingly worked well. Media Center (eventually) picked up the TV Tuner card, I have HDMI output to my LCD TV, etc. HOWEVER, when I inserted a CD, Media Center played 5 seconds of the first track and then hung. I couldn't even close it, I had to reboot.
I then tried other disks, outside of media center. Same problem. If I tried to do ANYTHING to the drive from My Computer or Device Manager, explorer would usually crash. The disk rarely gets detected in My Computer, or in some cases, it works for a couple of seconds of playback / reading, before it dies again.
I gave up for a while... but yesterday I finally got an LG Blu-Ray / HD DVD Drive for it, so my DVD Drive could live in my new computer. The issue is still happening. The blu-ray drive was detected by Windows 7 fine, and by the BIOS. Same problems are occuring. I've tried putting the SATA cable in a different port, tried swapping the SATA power cables with the hard-disk, turned off all these SATA-related options in the BIOS, took out half my RAM, etc, but to no avail.
I'm dying to get this blu-ray drive working! Please help me out!
Thankyou,
Rhys
I recently got a new computer, and so my old one has retired into its final years as a HTPC. It has these specs:
AM2 Athlon64 6400+ CPU (3.2ghz)
2GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz RAM
8600GTS
Gigabyte GA-M68SM-S2 Motherboard
Generic 500w PSU
Leadtek TV Tuner
The DVD-Writer in there had worked fine previously, and I took it out to install windows on my new computer, then returned it to the HTPC to reformat it / install Windows 7 64-bit RC.
Windows 7 took about 12 hours to install. Yes, I'm serious. But once it installed, all seemingly worked well. Media Center (eventually) picked up the TV Tuner card, I have HDMI output to my LCD TV, etc. HOWEVER, when I inserted a CD, Media Center played 5 seconds of the first track and then hung. I couldn't even close it, I had to reboot.
I then tried other disks, outside of media center. Same problem. If I tried to do ANYTHING to the drive from My Computer or Device Manager, explorer would usually crash. The disk rarely gets detected in My Computer, or in some cases, it works for a couple of seconds of playback / reading, before it dies again.
I gave up for a while... but yesterday I finally got an LG Blu-Ray / HD DVD Drive for it, so my DVD Drive could live in my new computer. The issue is still happening. The blu-ray drive was detected by Windows 7 fine, and by the BIOS. Same problems are occuring. I've tried putting the SATA cable in a different port, tried swapping the SATA power cables with the hard-disk, turned off all these SATA-related options in the BIOS, took out half my RAM, etc, but to no avail.
I'm dying to get this blu-ray drive working! Please help me out!
Thankyou,
Rhys