XP detects Cd-Rom and Dvd-Rom as SCSI Devices

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:08 pm

Here's my deal. I have a Western Digital SATA drive which I had to load the drivers before XP would detect my drive and install. Since I had this new computer it detects my cd-rw, dvd-rom, and second hdd as SCSI devices. In reality they are all IDE devices. How do I get them to have a IDE controller rather than SCSI? I can use my hdd and optical drives but I can't burn any cds with my cd-rw, it fails at something to do with SCSI controller.

Both my optical drives are Lite-on, but what the model my Hadware Manager says they are, aren't listed on Lite-on's site.

Help please!

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:38 pm

Question: is this a nForce motherboard? as in does it use the nForce2, or nForce3 chipsets.

<edit> also have you or do you have installed Alcohol 120% </edit>

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:06 am

I'll just tell you my entire system specs:
Barton 2500+
Epox EP-8RDA3+ NForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset
Onboard SATA: 2x Serial ATA by Silicon Image Sil3112a
Lite-on Dvd-Rom
Lite-on Cd-rw
Maxtor IDE 7200 HDD
WD 120 GB SATA
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

Negative on the Alchohol, I don't even know what that is.
I installed the driver for SATA that came with my set of drivers for my mobo. I think it has somthing to do with that.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 11:39 am

Alcohol wont do what hes is reporting, im an Alc beta tester and no-ones ever reported a problem like this anyway! :p

If you could tell us who ur drives are hooked up, like whats on Master and whats on Slave and on what channel... it would help us out!

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:02 pm

My Optical drives are one IDE channel 1 and Second HDD IDE 2.
On channel 1, Dvd-rom is master, Cd-rw is slave.

This is the same setup I had on a previous computer and it worked fine.
I even used the same program to burn, Nero 6 Ultra.

SATA has it's own hookup.

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:10 pm

Have you installed the nVidia Unified nForce drivers.... i think windows isnt detecting ur IDE channels correctly and hence recognizes them as SCSI equipment.
Try downloading them from http://www.nvidia.com and see how it goes.

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 12:17 pm

I'll try reinstalling the nForce driver tonight.
The first thing I did when I got my computer up and running with XP is install:
Nvidia nForce Driver
c-Media Audio Driver
Realtek Lan Driver
And I can't remember if I installed the following:
silcon image driver (serial ATA driver).

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:29 pm

If I needed to , how would I revert to Microsoft's IDE drivers?

Immortal · Post by **Immortal** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:39 pm

i dont think ul be able to, cause XP wont let u as an IDE driver is always needed to boot windows.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 3:35 pm

The reasson i brought up Alchohol was that it creates a vertual scsi device for your dvd/cdrw. I think what has happend is that you need newer drivers for your nForce as the nForce used at one point scsi drivers for its connection. I dont remember all the specifics of it but i bet a driver update from the web will fix that.

Xerxes · Post by **Xerxes** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:42 pm

just uninstall the nforce ide drivers and it will revert or do it manually by update driver: display a list of known: show all and under standard ide/atapi choose the standard dual channel ide controller and reboot. personally i hate the problems the nvidia sw ide driver causes with my plextor cdrw they wont play nice together.

Flux · Post by **Flux** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 8:09 pm

I installed latest nVidia drivers from Epox's website for my mobo, it now detects them correctly and AND I can burn cds!

Thanks for all the replys.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:47 am

thats what were here for.