hard drive and CD player conflicts

ponzan

ponzan

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Why should be that in my system when I play a music CD in the CDROM the hard drive monitor light lights on (of course without anything else running) and then, when I save something to the hard drive or the system accesses the hard drive the music stops briefly? which gets quite annoying!
Why is this weirdness of the CDROM messing with the hard drive while playing music!?

It does so either in Win2K or Win98. I'm working with an Athlon 950 CPU, ASUS A7V-M board with integrated AC'97 sound, 2 hard drives in the first IDE ch and the CDROM plus the CD burner in the 2nd IDE ch

:( :mad:

any ideas why this is happening and ways to fix it?

thanx in advance
 
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Duracell

Duracell

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Are your HDDs and the CDROM running in DMA mode?
if it isn't so, try to activate DMA;

Greetings from
Duracell
 
Duracell

Duracell

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Chipset? embedded or additional IDE-Controller?
Did you tried the latest chipset/busmaster drivers?
try also the original windows native M$ busmaster drivers;

Duracell
 
ponzan

ponzan

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yep, the IDE controllers comes with the ASUS A7V-M board and brings up to UltraDMA/66 support, which I have enabled
I do have the latest VIA drivers, haven't try with the M$ busmasters
 
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LTR12101B

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Are you playing from Windows Media Player, with visual effects?

Switch to analog play in the options, you'll lose the visuals, but analog play is far more satisfactory for background use, as it does not demand constant data transfer.
 
ponzan

ponzan

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Is this just my problem ?

all software players playing CD's are messing with the hardrive, same with DVD's. It's like the hardrive is catching the optical drives :confused:

Shouldn't the audio or the DVD files be going straight from the ROM player to the audio hardware and software without being catched on the Hardrive ?????
 
ponzan

ponzan

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they are 2002 models 7200 rpm 40 GB maxors, with UDMA 66 enabled and I regularly defrag them. But the crucial point here is why the optical drives seems to be catching to the hardrive while playing regular CD's and DVD's. What's the business of these ROM players with the hardrive? I have and old putter from 1985 who doesn't does that !!! Am I the only one here with this situation ? Or is this normal? (don´t think so)
 
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dx

dx

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ponzan..... have you tried experimenting by moving the drives around? Some hardware just won't play nice together.

Try several different configurations and compare the results. Esp. try the opticals on one IDE channel and the HD's on another. It may just be as simple as hardware not playing nice together. Try this and report back.

You might also try other IDE cables just to be safe. There could be some slight damage to the cable which would lead to strange problems.
 
ponzan

ponzan

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@ dxkim and roadworker, this has been going on since I first assembled my current putter (by the end of 2001), I've try diffs configs and IDE cables while I've changed or added new drives.
And everything is working fine. Is just this odd thing of the opticals seeming to be catching to the hardrive while playing music CDs or movie DVD's !! And nothing is more old than 2001, I have the last VIA drivers, last BIOS revision, etc.
 
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scarecrow

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Windows XP don't really need any 4:1 drivers, the performance difference is so minuscule that it's not worth the risk... or isn't using 4:1 a risk?
 
dx

dx

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scarecrow said:
Windows XP don't really need any 4:1 drivers, the performance difference is so minuscule that it's not worth the risk... or isn't using 4:1 a risk?
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Agreed. I read on AMDmb.com where a wise person realized that the latest VIA 4in1's are trouble for WinXP/2000 users. I myself was having strange problems in XP with latest 4in1's. After a reinstall of XP I only allowed the 4in1 update that is in SP1 to be used. Guess what?..... not a single lockup or problem ever since (4 months and counting).

IMHO, the latest VIA 4in1's sacrfice speed for stability on older chipsets. They are mostly designed for the KT400 chipset (the only system I would update them on ;)).

Sadly, I had to do a complete reinstall..... as uninstalling the 4in1's did not solve the problem.

Even if this is not the cause of your problems ponzan, I feel a complete reinstall may be in order. When using 2000, be sure to update to SP3 as there is many valuable driver updates in it (including VIA).
 
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burner61

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Sorry scarecrow but you are wrong this time.

If you have a KT400 chipset then you will need the latest 4 in 1 driver set for full 8x agp support and to fix some problems with USB2.0

Yes you are right scarecrow, i didn´t checked the chipset of ponzan´s asus board ;)
 
dx

dx

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burner61 said:
If you have a KT400 chipset then you will need the latest 4 in 1 driver set for full 8x agp support and to fix some problems with USB2.0

Yes you are right scarecrow, i didn´t checked the chipset of ponzan´s asus board ;)
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Correct and correct. There are some important VIA updates for KT400 chipsets in the latest VIA Hyperion drivers.

But as you say pozan is not using a KT400 chipset, he is using an older VIA KT133 chipset. And this is what roadworker, scarecrow, and I are hinting at. ;)
 
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scarecrow

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I saw something about KT 133... or not?
And yes, newer VIA chipsets need dedicated drivers. I have lost count on the VIA set, as my last VIA mobo was a long time ago.
Also Win2000 SP2+ do not need 4:1 with KT133.
 
dx

dx

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scarecrow said:
I saw something about KT 133... or not?
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Actually there wasn't..... but the ASUS A7V-M (which was) is a VIA VT8363 (KT133) chipset. So it's all good ;)
 
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