Ok, i had posted about this situation before i think but i did not have alot of details. so, here it is again.
Here are the computer specs.
Abit NF7 Motherboard
Athlon XP 2000+ CPU
2x256MB Kingston Value RAM
80 GB WD Harddrive
Saphinre Radeon 9000 with 128MB DDR
Toshiba DVD-R drive
LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM
Windows XP Home
My friend and i had done this setup for someone he works with. The Original setup of the IDE devices was,
Primary Master=Hard Drive (jumpered for Master)
Primary Slave=None
Secondary Master=Toshiba DVD-R (jumpered for Master)
Secondary Slave=LiteOn DVD-ROM (jumpered for Slave)
While watching DVDs on the LiteOn, after about 2-3 minutes, the sound would start to crakle. If the same movie is played on the Toshiba, no problems for the whole movie. I then switched the drives, Toshiba as Slave and LiteOn as master. After the switch, the Toshiba would start to crackle after about 2-3 minutes and the LiteOn had no problems for the whole movie. So, now i thought that the Secondary IDE has a problem with the Slave drives. I then moved the LiteOn as a slave to the HardDrive on the primary IDE (thinking maybe it is the Secondary IDE that has the problem). But, now the LiteOn crackles again as a Slave to the Hard Drive. So, now i am on a different IDE hookup and on a different ribbon cable and still it crackles when in the slave setting.
My next steps are to set both DVD drives as cable select and maybe tell the BIOS that there is a PnP OS installed so that Windows can assign the IRQs.
Any other ideas?? Is it maybe a motherboard problem? Drivers? I have installed the latest nForce2 drivers. Also, PowerDVD is the software. i may also try another DVD software program.
Thank you for any replies and guidance.
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