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dma101 · Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:45 am

i currently am running on a a7n8x dlx and i am having some problems with the ide when ever i plug my dvd drive ...it dosent work its there on "my computer " in windows but it still dosent read dvds.the only thing i have done was make my current ide cables round by making slits and tapping them(better air flow) whats the deal ???

Dran · Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:14 am

It's not just you having that problem, and it's not your cable.

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10803&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
http://www.amdforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=207045

Anyone else reading the T-R forums having this type of problem with an nForce2 board?

dma101 · Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:19 am

thanks

dma101 · Sun Apr 13, 2003 8:32 am

ok i thiink i know what the problem is , but how do i flash the firmware ???

Dran · Sun Apr 13, 2003 5:31 pm

What do you think the problem is?

If you're referring to your optical drive's firmware, go to the manufacturer's website and locate their firmware update tool and/or latest firmware update. They'll have flashing instructions there.

If you meant the motherboard BIOS, just download the new BIOS, copy it to a freshly formatted boot diskette, and flash it from DOS. Or use the manufacturer's Windows flashing utility. The 8RDA(+) series supports flashing by putting the BIOS on a clean diskette and hitting Alt + F2 at POST, so you may see if yours does as well.

Forge · Sun Apr 13, 2003 6:23 pm

I had a Liteon 52X CDRW on my A7N8X without any issues, so it's not endemic to the drive and board, just some examples. I highly disrecommend rounded cables, though. I had lots of little hard to diagnose problems before, with rounded cables, I went back to flats and everything is dandy now.

If you read up on the ATA specs, rounded cables are a VERY bad idea, as they completely bypass that nice 80wire part of the spec. You might just as well force ATA100 on a 40 wire cable, the corruption probably wouldn't be any worse.

Dran · Sun Apr 13, 2003 7:12 pm

Forge wrote:
I had a Liteon 52X CDRW on my A7N8X without any issues, so it's not endemic to the drive and board, just some examples. I highly disrecommend rounded cables, though. I had lots of little hard to diagnose problems before, with rounded cables, I went back to flats and everything is dandy now.

If you read up on the ATA specs, rounded cables are a VERY bad idea, as they completely bypass that nice 80wire part of the spec. You might just as well force ATA100 on a 40 wire cable, the corruption probably wouldn't be any worse.

I also tried two other 80 wire 40 pin cables, both flat, both new and still sealed in their packages. One was a leftover from a HDD purchase, the second was the cable EPoX included in the 8RDA package. The other people in the referenced forums/threads also tried other cables.

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