Problem With LG4040b

[Ethous]

Hello All
I am having a bit of a broblem.
I have Lg4040b Super Writter.
Windows cannot detect it at all when I installed it worked fine then stoped?
I have Tried Diffrent cables I have updated the firmware from A300 to A301.
I looked for diffrent drivers still the same.
The other Weird this is when I boot in windows it is not installed?
I have to go to devise Manager and make it scan for new hardware?
The problem for the hardware scan was happening allot at the beggining now not anymore it is installed but wont read if i uninstall and reinstall still the same.
I insert any dvd movie or cd does not read either is the drive fubard?
I am at a lost and need anser quick because i am about to bring it back To futureshop before to late

My Systems Specs.

Amd 2600+
MSI KT6 motherboard
9200 Radion
2 40gig maxtor drives
One 10x dvdrom
and LG4040b Writter
Windows XP sp1

[Ethous]

Does anybody have any ideas i getting stressed out.

[myckee]

It sounds like a jumper problem. On the back of the drive, there are little jumpers you have to set to indicate whether the drive is a 'master' or 'slave'. You can't have two masters or two slaves. You can only have one master and one slave on the cable.

As well, check your motherboard BIOS to make sure that slave drives are enabled.

[cfitz]

And, if possible, try installing it as master on an IDE channel by itself (with no slave driver present). Is your BIOS set to auto-detect the drive? Does the BIOS detect the drive when the machine is booting (but before Windows starts)?

cfitz

[Ethous]

Thanks man that what it was my other dvd rom made from afreey does not work with the 4040b so to all that ever had that problem here is a solution afreey and lg dont work i tried it in 2 machines same thing
THANK YOU

[cfitz]

You're welcome, and I'm glad it is resolved. It is rare for two drives to interfere with each other this way, but you aren't the first victim of this problem.

I'm not sure what you finally decided to do with the drives, but if you still want to use both, here are a couple of ideas.

First, you might want to try switching their roles to see if it makes any difference. What I mean by switching their roles is putting them back together on the same IDE channel with one configured as master and the other as slave, and then making the original master into a slave and the original slave into the master. You might find that they work together in one configuration even though they don't in the other. It shouldn't make any difference, but as you have found out, sometimes things that shouldn't happen do.

Second, you might want to arrange them so that they are on two separate channels of the IDE controller, each sharing its respective channel with one of your hard drives. Make sure to leave the boot hard drive as master on the first IDE channel.

Third, you could get an additional IDE controller card or an external enclosure for one of them. But that is more work and money, so I won't go into details at this point.

cfitz