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19-Nov-2009, 09:15 AM #1
Angry Installing a second Disk Drive
I have just purchased a SH-D163B sata drive and am having trouble trying to get it installed.

I am very new to the hardware side of PC's so forgive me if this is a simply problem to solve.

I currently have an IDE CD-ROM drive and two HDD's in SATA slots 1 and 3.
I have plugged my new sata dvd burner into slot 5 and when i turn the PC on it goes through all the loading screens fine. After i type my password and the desktop comes up it gets about 10 to 15 seconds in to loading everything and then i either get the blue screen of death or everything just freezes.

I checked the BIOS and it reads that there is a disk drive in slot 5.

Do i need to change something in the BIOS when installing a second ROM drive or what?

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.

I'm running vista btw
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19-Nov-2009, 09:37 AM #2
OK, in order to help you, you need to post your exact system specs; ie make and model of mb, etc.

Next what mode do you have the sata controller set to in the bios? Some older drives do not like ahci or raid set in the bios.
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19-Nov-2009, 09:38 AM #3
The drivers for the drive need to be installed from the cd drive you already have. It might not be compatible with vista. Link me to the drive.

EDIT: I guess my information is wrong. Maybe my advice is best just left to computer building.
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19-Nov-2009, 09:59 AM #4
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The drivers for the drive need to be installed from the cd drive you already have. It might not be compatible with vista. Link me to the drive.
What??? Completely incorrect. No drivers are needed for any optical drive with vista. It will load its own driver when it detects the drive.
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19-Nov-2009, 10:24 AM #5
The motherboard is an ASUS P5n32-E SLi Plus.
Vista 32-bit OS

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19-Nov-2009, 10:26 AM #6
As for what i have the drives set to i'm not sure exactly what you mean sorry... This is a brand new drive the SH-D136B. Samsung/Kreon drive...
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19-Nov-2009, 03:13 PM #7
You need to know what mode your sata controller is set to. First of all read your manual as to bios settings. This will tell you where to look for the setting.

Have you tried other sata ports?
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