drives dropping like flies!

[trdsw20]

2 weeks ago my burner went down.It is a TDK 24x10x40. It hought that it possibly was just a drive fail but it seems to be that my DVD went down as well. both of them seem to not be able to read discs (real and burned, audio and data) furthermore the drive wont even respond when I try to eject, the light just blinks.

Does anybody know if OCing damaged teh IDE channel?The burner was on channel 2 and the DVD on channel 1 both were slave. Itried configuring them as different drives.

HELP?!?!?!?!?

 

[Kingslayer]

Throw a hard drive on the controller that had the CD's on it and see if it will read data on those.

 

[Cooler666]

Throw a hard drive on the controller that had the CD's on it and see if it will read data on those.

not if you want your hard disk to fail as well

 

[trdsw20]

Yeah well the burner was hooked up to the IDE 1 and the DVD to 2. I also had a HD hooked up as master on both channels

 

[explorer]

What fsb are you running, if you run too high, depending on components, you will damage them.

 

[deez]

maybe the PSU is going out..check your voltage readings

 

[trdsw20]

Kind of a stupid Question but what would I check for?

 

[deez]

Check the 5 and 12V and see if they are unusually high or low

The bios is generally the most accurate for voltage monitoring but you can also use MBM, Sandra etc...

What type of PSU do you have?

 

[trdsw20]

The 300W that comes with Antec cases (SX1030).

 

[Kingslayer]

not if you want your hard disk to fail as well

So what if it fails. That's my point. See if it fails, if it fails its the cable or the controller or the voltage. If it doesnt fail his CDROMs are dead.

It's not going to corrupt the drive....just not read it.

 

[trdsw20]

All the volts seem to be running alright the 5V drops at the most to 4.92 and the 12 is solid
not sure if the rest really matters but here we go:
the 3.3V is stays at 3.31 and the -12V is hanging at about -12.60V
hope you guys can help!

 

[Kingslayer]

Do your hard drives that are still on those channels work?!?!

If they do, your CDROMS are shot and you are checking voltages for nothing.

 

[ToTalXS]

believe it or not I had three brand new cdroms die in two weeks....no explanation just the fourth one worked......

 

[trdsw20]

yeah the CD drive just failed. I guess theres nothing wrong with the volts then huh

 

[Fink]

Check the 5 and 12V and see if they are unusually high or low

The bios is generally the most accurate for voltage monitoring but you can also use MBM, Sandra etc...

What type of PSU do you have?

BZZZZT, wrong. Don't rely on the BIOS for anything.

Use a multimeter

 

[Ebola]

the 300W PSU that comes with the antec 1030 is a good one so I'm doubting the PSU is the problem. Try switching your CD/DVD drives to PIO mode.

 

[h0mersimps0n]

same thing here

Just before x-mas time I had my dvd drive die then about a week or two later my burner died out of no where!!!!

The dvd drive was a semi-cheap delta drive ($70 staples) and the burner was a plextor 16/10/40.

Delta refused to even exchange a replacement without ORIGINAL recept which I didn't have cause I don't save 8 month old recepts, PLEXTOR in their awesomeness gave me not a single hassel and sent me a refurbed replacement that works GREAT!, I ate the $70 for the F-ing dvd drive and never figured out what it was...

My thoughts:

1.) These two drives also died almost immediately after I upgrade installed xp from 2000...

2.) I started opening my window next to my case and the 30F air was hitting the case/drives constantly so I was thinking the drives were getting too cold and caused the lasers to die or something...

(and yes I checked the IDE channels, etc. obvious stuff)

who the hell knows, I don't have that setup anymore I've upgraded since then a went with enermax instead of brand-x PS...

I'd also like to put in a good word for MSI, I love this KT3 ARU, its freegin PACKED with goodies and runs/OC's really damn good!

take er easy..

HJS out...

 

[trdsw20]

Yeah I was doubting that the PS had anything to do with it. It hasnt given me any problems... I dont know about switching from 2k to XP but I upgraded to XP about 5 months ago. No real problems... I also tried all the obvious

Is there a possibility that a homemade rounded cable could cause this? I noticed that the last cd that I burned (audio) came out bad, plays but it starts to skip no scratches.