how do i solve a disc drive conflict?

[andreasaspenberg575]

my disc drive have a conflict that is so bad that i can not access my computer while it is active. i had to deactivate it in order to access my computer at all. how do i solve that?

[nullable]

To be clear, what kind of disc drive?

CD/DVD/Blu-ray/floppy?

Is it SATA, PATA or USB?

Did it used to work and it just randomly stopped? Drives fail, have you tested it in another machine? If you have the same problem in a second machine it might indicate the drive has failed and needs to be replaced.

[_I_]

do they show properly in bios?

it may just be a bad sata cable

[Back Yard Gamer]

How old is the drive? There was a time when you needed to set the drive to slave.

Check the drive info in the BIOS it may be something as simple as changing the boot order.

If you are not comfortable with changing settings in the BIOS get help from a friend.
Best of luck.

[_I_]

Escrito originalmente por Back Yard Gamer:

How old is the drive? There was a time when you needed to set the drive to slave.

Check the drive info in the BIOS it may be something as simple as changing the boot order.

If you are not comfortable with changing settings in the BIOS get help from a friend.
Best of luck.

pata master/slave/cable select jumper settings were to select the channel on the controller for the drive
only one master and one slave on a cable
40pin needed to use master and slave jumper, 80pin use cable select

if 2 drives were set to master or slave, then they would conflict and not be seen by bios
a single drive can be master slave or cable select with no problems

[skOsH♥]

I've had difficulties with a disk drive in one of my builds. It seemingly would only be detected at random times. I would press the eject button, then press it again to push the media disk back in, rinse, repeat.

I think the problem with the one I had was that it was not sitting completely flat.

I did have this exact same problem....and I remember fixing it, and what I did was swap out one of the sata cables for another one that was in my psu bag that holds extra cables from the box.

I also had to dust the absolute crap out of it. Then it worked. But it still sometimes, would randomly stop working.

Have you tried different programs to test to see if you can write info to a disk and then check to see if it will load said info when you press the button to eject the drive and then press it back in.

There's something called Alcohol 120%, for disk media, which a lot of people swear by. You could give that a go

If you have an unused sata cable, I would try that first and then dust the area out if it needs it

[_I_]

optical drive, can be dusty or bad laser, they do fail after alot of use

[skOsH♥]

Escrito originalmente por _I_:

optical drive, can be dusty or bad laser, they do fail after alot of use

Also a good indicator of an optical drive going bad, is if you write music to it and upon playback in a CD player, it sounds terrible or muffled

[andreasaspenberg575]

the problem seems to be software related. when i uninstall it and then reinstall it, it works perfectly, until the drivers just fail again. now however it refuse to uninstall when it is enabled.

[emoticorpse]

Are you on a laptop?

[andreasaspenberg575]

yes, it is a laptop. the disc drive is newer than the pc however. i had it replaced, because it kept scratching up my discs. it was sent in through the store however.

[_I_]

is the drive physically removable?
in a slot or bay
try re-seating it

[andreasaspenberg575]

think it is attached with something. the laptop is also running, as i am using it to watch tv. if i shall take the disc drive out, i would need to turn it off first. though i doubt that the problem is hardware based. it does after all work perfectly if i uninstall it and then reinstall it. that suggsts that there is a bug in the driver somewhere.

[emoticorpse]

Can you post a picture of the "Disc drive conflict"? I'm not sure what that means or what it is.

[andreasaspenberg575]

it would not work. i can explain it however. if i start up and there is no disc in the drive, then it shows no disc even after inserting one. if i insert a disc and then reboot, it shows the disc as being there. if i try to access the disc without swapping drivers, nothing happens. if i swap driver and then tries to access the disc it works perfectly. i have not however tried to swap disc after swapping driver.

[emoticorpse]

Escrito originalmente por andreasaspenberg575:

it would not work. i can explain it however. if i start up and there is no disc in the drive, then it shows no disc even after inserting one. if i insert a disc and then reboot, it shows the disc as being there. if i try to access the disc without swapping drivers, nothing happens. if i swap driver and then tries to access the disc it works perfectly. i have not however tried to swap disc after swapping driver.

Swap which drivers? Can you explain this?