Rom causing partial lockups.

MasterCraft · Dec 11, 2007

Title basically.

Every few minutes my rom will begin to spin up, even if there is no CD in the drive, but when it does it, the system just hangs, movies stop, games freeze, everything.

Once it hits full speed (1-3 seconds usually) it goes back to normal.

Any way to fix it?

Drive is a plextor DVD, 16mb cache, can't look up the model # atm.

MasterCraft · Dec 12, 2007

bump.

BLOOP! · Dec 13, 2007

Your optical could be broken. Does it do that when its not connected? try it first

MasterCraft · Dec 13, 2007

it ONLY does it when the drive spins up.

The drive itself works fine. It just halts everything for a few seconds anytime it spins up the disk (which is at random times)

MasterCraft · Dec 13, 2007

bump ;(

coin · Dec 14, 2007

does it does this with all disks or just one? Sounds like it's looking for something and can't find it

MasterCraft · Dec 18, 2007

It does it if there is no disk in the drive.

+ bump for more feedback.

Trap05 · Dec 18, 2007

Is there a firmware update?

grumperfish · Dec 19, 2007

Check the system log for any error messages relating to cd-roms/optical drives. It might be having some kind of controller or drive error. Additionally, check device manager under IDE controller to make sure it's running in DMA vs PIO mode (note: disregard this if it's an SATA drive).

MasterCraft · Dec 19, 2007

It's a Sata drive, no errors in the log.

The drive works fine, it just takes a second or two to spin up even if there is no disk in the drive, and when it does it causes my system to hang.

Never used to do that so I know it's not normal.

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