Pioneer DVD ROM Question
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Posted by Ron on August 20, 2008, 9:07 pm
Please log in for more thread options Can someone tell me why a "Pioneer DVD-106S" DVD ROM won't work with this motherboard http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=945GM3-F&class=mb ? Best link I could find for the Pioneer (it's old - 2001) http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h269.htm | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Paul on August 20, 2008, 9:58 pm
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> > Best link I could find for the Pioneer (it's old - 2001) > http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h269.htm The motherboard has an ICH7 Southbridge, with one IDE port on the Southbridge. So there is no excuse for that (IDE port) to be not working, from a hardware perspective. Intel stuff usually works. http://download1.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E7267v3.0.zip Your next stop, would be the BIOS screens. Go to "On-Chip ATA Devces" (misspelled in the manual). "ATA/IDE Configuration" should be set to [Enhanced], if you want to use all six drives. And all six drives would work, in an OS like Win2K, WinXP, or Vista. Only four of six would work in Win98, and you'd need to use "Compatible" setting for that, and make a selection of which four of six drives that are enabled. WinXP has drivers for the Enhanced (PCI address space) mode, in SP1. Be careful if changing that setting, in the sense that the choice of settings should be considered with respect to what OS you're running (and which service pack). Any change to that part of the hardware setup, can lead to issues like refusal to boot. Once you'd verified that, you can look in the BIOS screen, to see if the identity string for the Pioneer is visible in the BIOS. You should be able to drill down to that stuff, via "Standard CMOS Features". Other than that, you'd check the usual suspects, like a bad cable, bad choice of "master/slave/cable_select" jumper on the back of the drive, or forgotting to connect power cable. Try pressing the button on the tray, and see if the tray opens and closes. You can also try the device, while it is pulled out of the drive bay, just in case it is a grounding problem of some sort (someone had a problem like that yesterday, which was news to me). The device is also old, and may have died while in storage or due to handling (electrostatic discharge). Many things are possible. And new drives are pretty cheap. Paul | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by GlowingBlueMist on August 21, 2008, 1:05 pm
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> Ron wrote:
>> Can someone tell me why a "Pioneer DVD-106S" DVD ROM won't work with
>> this motherboard >> http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=945GM3-F&class=mb >> ? >> >> Best link I could find for the Pioneer (it's old - 2001) >> http://www.itreviews.co.uk/hardware/h269.htm >
An easy method to verify if the problem is windows related or just a
> The motherboard has an ICH7 Southbridge, with one IDE port on the > Southbridge. So there is no excuse for that (IDE port) to be not working, > from a hardware perspective. Intel stuff usually works. > > http://download1.msi.com.tw/files/downloads/mnu_exe/E7267v3.0.zip > > Your next stop, would be the BIOS screens. Go to "On-Chip ATA Devces" > (misspelled in the manual). "ATA/IDE Configuration" should be set > to [Enhanced], if you want to use all six drives. And all six drives > would work, in an OS like Win2K, WinXP, or Vista. Only four of six > would work in Win98, and you'd need to use "Compatible" setting for > that, and make a selection of which four of six drives that are > enabled. > > WinXP has drivers for the Enhanced (PCI address space) mode, in > SP1. > > Be careful if changing that setting, in the sense that the > choice of settings should be considered with respect to what > OS you're running (and which service pack). Any change to that > part of the hardware setup, can lead to issues like refusal to boot. > > Once you'd verified that, you can look in the BIOS screen, > to see if the identity string for the Pioneer is visible in > the BIOS. You should be able to drill down to that stuff, > via "Standard CMOS Features". > > Other than that, you'd check the usual suspects, like a bad cable, > bad choice of "master/slave/cable_select" jumper on the back of > the drive, or forgotting to connect power cable. Try pressing the button > on the tray, and see if the tray opens and closes. You can also try > the device, while it is pulled out of the drive bay, just in case > it is a grounding problem of some sort (someone had a problem like that > yesterday, which was news to me). > > The device is also old, and may have died while in storage or due to > handling (electrostatic discharge). Many things are possible. And > new drives are pretty cheap. > > Paul hardware, bios, drive problem is to try downloading one of the Linux or Unix live distribution CD's and boot from that. If the CDRom works from there then the problem is a driver problem in Windows and not hardware. If memory serves there used to be three different flavors of CDRom drives in the early days which used mutually incompatible drivers. Microsoft or the hardware venders finally picked one of them as the winner and uses it as the default driver during installation but others may be installed if needed. If the unit works using one of the Live Linux cd's then you might try download and installing a driver from Pioneer. Many times I have had to download drivers from one of the European Pioneer web sites as the USA sites would no longer have them on a web page for downloading. | ||||||||||||||||
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