Leon

I seem to be having a problem I can't figure out. Hopefully the intelligent people of G|A? can help.

My problem is that I just installed my new Liteon CD-RW onto my Dual Athlon rig which has onboard Ultra160 SCSI and Nero WILL NOT WORK on it. When you load it up, it hangs where the program is "Scanning IDE/SCSI Bus".

I know it's not the drive because the Liteon works on my P3-750 box which is pure IDE, so it has to do with either the AMD chipset (which I seriously doubt), the dual setup, the onboard SCSI, or some combination. Any help would be appreciated. Here's my computer setup:

Windows XP Professional
Tyan Thunder K7 Mobo with BIOS 2.09
1GB ECC Registered DDR-RAM
Onboard Adaptec AIC-7899W Dual-Channel Ultra160 SCSI Controller
CD-RW as Master on Primary IDE
DVD-ROM as Master on Secondary IDE
Onboard LAN - 3COM 3C920
18GB SCSI HDD as Boot Drive
2 x 36GB SCSI HDD for Apps and Misc

So far the only thing I can think of as conflicting is the SCSI. Other than that, maybe I have some IRQ conflicts?

Here are the shared IRQs:

IRQ 16: Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160 PCI SCSI Card
IRQ 16: Creative SB Audigy
IRQ 17: Adaptec AIC-7899 Ultra160 PCI SCSI Card
IRQ 17: NVIDIA GeForce3
IRQ 17: OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

I dunno. It's seriously putting a damper on my day.

Edit: Forgot to add, this was with Nero 5.5.7.2 which came bundled with the Liteon. I also tried version 5.5.8.0 which was even worst. I also tried upgrading the firmware to the latest version for the Liteon.

NuTs62

I won't be of much help, but I know I had tons of troubles with my Tyan board, and getting everything to work with it. After over 4 months, my system isn't working 100% yet. I was told by the tech support from my ISP that the NIC on the board sucks, and is incompatible with a few DSL modems.

As for the SCSI, do you have a spare SCSI card? Try plugging that in, disabling the onboard.

Hmm, have you even got your system to boot? If so, did your Lite-On power up? See if it'll open, and try running a CD. For me, my CD-RW, DVD-ROM wouldn't work properly. I had to make sure the cables were ATA-100 or 133 before it worked. My system setup is below, so its a little similar? Hope any of this helps.

Leon

Yeah, that sound about right. The Tyan board has given me more problems than I would like to admit. Darth says he has been having issues with the IDE/SCSI bus scanning as well. So it pretty much narrows it down to the onboard SCSI controller. *sigh*

NuTs62

My board doesn't have onboard RAID/SCSI. But I had a Highpoint card in there. Though the drives appeared, it would never let me get into the RAID Bios. There was conflict with the card and the board. I switched that out, and went with the 3Ware card, and worked fine.

Though with yours, since its onboard, thats weird. Tyan's tech support isn't much help. They'll just try and blame it on other components in your setup.

Have you tried unplugging all your other non-essential cards like sound card..? Does it still give you the same problem?


I think I went through like 4 Tyan boards. None worked until I finally got their updated board with a newer onboard bios, which resolved some conflicts with my video card. They may be cheap boards, but I'm gonna go back to Asus boards (alot less headaches)

Leon

Technically, the only non-essential card I had in the system is the sound card. Everything else is onboard like the NIC and stuff. I guess I can try taking out the GF3 and just use the onboard video too. This is just plain ridiculous. Curses! I never should have left Asus either.

spigidygak

Did you try a different burning program? Also, make sure you got the newest version of nero since they did just a while back make a patch to work with XP, but I'm sure you got that already taken care of.

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unnamed

i had the same problem with a completely different setup because i was trying to use an old version of nero with xp, try downloading the latest demo even if you purchased it already and see if that works.

Jeffbx

Say, you haven't had the Adaptec EZ-CD Creator software loaded on this system before, have you? I've found that the Adaptec software and Nero fight like cats & dogs, even if you've uninstalled one of them....

Leon

Nope. This was the first CD-Writing software I installed. I did try installing EZ-CD just to see if it would work, but that made it worst! Yeah, those two just don't get along.

Leon

I first tried 5.5.7.8 which comes with the Liteon. Then upgraded to 5.5.8.0 which didn't even bother to load. Me thinks it's the SCSI...

LPMiller

likely. However, try CD-Mate, see if that fires up.

Are there updated drivers for the built in SCSI?

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Leon

Hey, CD Mate works!!!! LPM, you're a genius!