Blue screen

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Okay here is whats happening. I just built a new system the other day (Asus mobo CUSL2-C/815EP chipset). I loaded the mobo chipset drivers right after I loaded Win98SE. The CD-ROM drive worked fine the first day, but the second day when I tried loading some programs onto the computer I get a blue screen saying that the CD-ROM needs cleaning!! How the heck can it need cleaning if it is brand new?! Anyway, after I got back to the desktop I get a GPF when the drive tried reading the CD. I had this problem before on another computer and it was caused by a faulty CD-ROM drive. I tried the CD in another computer and had no problems, so it isn't the CD. So what I ended up doing is putting an old CD-ROM drive in the new computer, BUT another thing I want to know is why is the drive taking so long reading the CD (it did the same thing on the first CD-ROM drive as well)? I mean the drive starts and stops a few times before it brings up on the screen what is on the CD. This is a 48X CD-ROM drive and the other faulty one is a 50X. Could this be something in the BIOS that I over looked, or what could it be?

Thanks in advance

[goodespeler]

If you say that you juts built it ,I take it your mobo is new. Therefore, your bios most likely supports the drive. Check your manuel for that one. Yuo might have a driver problem. Tell more about the system. Is it a Scsi or a stndard ide drive. What kind of cd-rom is it. did you say that you tried other cd-roms on the same system? If you did, did they work?

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Originally posted by goodespeler:
If you say that you juts built it ,I take it your mobo is new. Therefore, your bios most likely supports the drive. Check your manuel for that one. Yuo might have a driver problem. Tell more about the system. Is it a Scsi or a stndard ide drive. What kind of cd-rom is it. did you say that you tried other cd-roms on the same system? If you did, did they work?

Yes, everything is brand new. The system is a standard IDE. The CD-ROM drive is a Delta IDE drive. And yes, I tried other CD's on the system and they worked, but they were all slow at coming up on the screen

[condor]

are you using standard IDE (not UDMA66/100) cable ?

try to set your Drive as Secondary master
try to enable/disable DMA support for the CD-ROM channel (Device manager)

use a Bootdisk with CD-ROM support and see if it works in DOS http://www.bootdisk.com

Hope it helps.

[DocPC]

Delta.....BLEH! Try a Sony or Lite-on, or any name brand CD-Rom.

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Originally posted by Condor:
are you using standard IDE (not UDMA66/100) cable ?

try to set your Drive as Secondary master
try to enable/disable DMA support for the CD-ROM channel (Device manager)

use a Bootdisk with CD-ROM support and see if it works in DOS http://www.bootdisk.com

Hope it helps.

It is a standard IDE cable, and I did have it as the secondary Master, but now have it as Slave...Would that matter as having it as Slave? And the DMA is disabled.

At least this is a smaller problem than I anticipated before I built the system.

[condor]

well you shouldn't set it as slave if there's no Master on the channel..

did you try the DOS boot disk like I suggeested ?

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Originally posted by DocPC:
Delta.....BLEH! Try a Sony or Lite-on, or any name brand CD-Rom.

BLEH isn't the word for that crappy drive! It does work, BUT with only certain CD's. I tried it this morning in another computer and got the blue screen again! So it definately sucks! I will get a name brand as soon as I can, but for now I need to figure out why it is taking so long for the CD-ROM drives to read and bring up on the screen what is on disks. I had 3 CD-ROM drives in this new system and all 3 are taking a long time reading

[condor]

Try a toshiba CD-ROM
cheap and great..


as for reading takes long..
are you running Anti-Virus?
it might be checking the drive..

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Originally posted by Condor:
Try a toshiba CD-ROM
cheap and great..


as for reading takes long..
are you running Anti-Virus?
it might be checking the drive..

A Toshiba CD-ROM drive is what is in MY computer here at home. I have had good luck with it and it's not too shabby and was thinking about getting one for the computer I just built.

As for running an anti-virus program...no, I am not. Yesterday I changed it to the Slave of the HDD (just to see what would happen) and it seemed to speed it up alittle more...was thinking of changing it back to secondary Master

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Originally posted by Condor:
well you shouldn't set it as slave if there's no Master on the channel..

did you try the DOS boot disk like I suggeested ?

Ooops! Sorry I overlooked your post
Yes, I figured that out about setting as Slave, so I set it as secondary Master.
And no I didn't try the DOS boot disk yet. I think things will be okay once I get the new drive...I hope.

[goodespeler]

Good Luck with a new cd-rom. I strongly suggest sony. They kick ***.

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Originally posted by goodespeler:
Good Luck with a new cd-rom. I strongly suggest sony. They kick ***.

Maybe next time Sony I have a Toshiba in my system and it has never failed me. It will even read scratched disks and I think that is pretty good for a cheap CD-ROM drive.

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Now I'm a happy camper. I just got the new CD-ROM drive and it works great! It actually was the cheap crappy CD-ROM drive. Now it reads faster and brings up what is on the disk a lot faster now...sweeeet!
<IMG SRC="smilies/tongue.gif" border="0"> Any suckers out there can have the other CD-ROM drive for 10 bucks! *LOL* Just kidding!! <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">