Wish I was diving wrote:
> I already tried to get help on this but wasn't successful - so this is my
> second shot. My first attempt was a month ago and I did a lot of reading
> since - equally unsuccessful.
> The Problem: My Asus DRW2014L1T won't open it's door for me. It also doesn't
> recognize any CD's I 'force' into it (emergency open). So far this sounds
> like a hardware problem. There are some aspects though that make me doubt
> that: during boot my other DVD drive is correctly displayed as PATA (Pioneer
> DVR 112) but no mention of the Asus (no mention of the SATA HDD either by the
> way - so maybe that's normal?). In 'My Computer' the drive is listed as
> 'CD-Rom' drive. In 'Device Manager' it is listed under the correct name and
> as properly working. In 'Computer Management/Disk Management' it's the same
> as in 'Device Manager' - the Pioneer is recognized as DVD, the Asus is listed
> as CD-Rom drive. Under 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' I have 9 listings (is that
> normal - I thought I only had 3 drives in total and although there was one
> step during installation of my broadband modem installing a 'CD-Rom device'
> that only makes 4???):
> Intel ICH9 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 2 - 2926
> Intel ICH9 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller 1 - 2920
> Primary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&23C3F348&0&0)
> Primary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&3A09A70B&0&0)
> Primary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\5&1F7D41A9&0&0)
> Secondary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&23C3F348&0&1)
> Secondary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4&3A09A70B&0&1)
> Secondary IDE Channel (Details: PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\5&1F7D41A9&0&1)
> Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (Details:
> PCI\VEN_11AB&DEV_6121&SUBSYS_5442808086&REV_B2\4&2DA1E264&0&00E4)
> If I disconnect the Asus the boot process is a lot faster, with the Asus
> attached boot goes through a couple of 'please hold or call back later'
> phases, particularly when the drives are being 'detected' (or not).
> Any clue what's going on? Is it just the drive itself (I hope not - the
> dealer is 800 miles away and I won't get there again before July)?
> System Info: Windows XP Pro 2, Intel DX38BT board, Intel Core2 2,66, NVidia
> XT6800, plenty of free space on the harddrive, DDR3 1333 1GH RAM, no viruses.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
Got another PC around you can stick the Asus drive in?
Have you done any recent hardware changes, like flipping cables, M/S
settings etc that might be wrong now? or did this just start one day.
The will not open the door, is a pretty good hardware issue. With
power only, I'd say the drive should at least open and close with the
button.
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