http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/driver.php?S_ID=450

Install the chipset first, then the rest of them. Don't install the bios yet, wait until you have a fully working OS.

http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_xp-32.aspx

get the catalyst software suite. If you want to use catalyst control center as your 3d control panel, you can, but it's somewhat bug prone and lacks an intuitive feel for those of us who like to see everything. ATT is slightly better in that regard, though you'll lose out on features you never cared about and gain some more useful things: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=320467

I'm quite worried about your CD drive, but hopefully the chipset drivers will fix that.

Yeah, I really don't get it. The drive recognizes that there's a disc, but it won't run. And it freezes when I try to do it manually. I went and double checked the power and IDE cables are plugged in. Those are the only things I need, right?

Power and IDE that's correct. I'm not sure how to help you, if you have a flash drive perhaps you could download the drivers you need and transport them to the new PC?

Quick guess - if you've installed XP on it, that could be the problem, especially depending on your version of XP. Is it origial XP, SP1, SP2 or SP3? If anything older than SP3, then try updating that first. It just may not have proper driver support for your CD-rom drive. I mean, it *should* because it's pretty standard equipment, but that's something else you should try first.

Well it plays dvds and audio cds just fine, it's just the things I need (driver discs, starcraft ) that won't work. I was thinking that the problem may be with XP, so I'll just wait until I get Windows 7 on here and then see what happens.

What if you view the contents of a video DVD (which are playing fine)?

why'd you get a PATA/IDE drive anyway?

you could just use a flash drive. I have SP3 and a ton of generic drivers on mine, since I've been recently reinstalling stuff.

I didn't know dvd drives had different types of connection.

Hopefully this stuff will work when windows 7 gets installed. ;o

... wowowow..

I think I had changed to that one, but then when Ex presented me with the slightly cheaper one, I ignorantly switched to that.

Don't worry, IDE works just as well. The only problem is that soon there will be no motherboards having an IDE slot anymore so should you ever replace your current motherboard you'll most likely also have to replace your DVD drive.

However this doesn't explain why you can watch video DVDs and music CDs but can't open data CDs. I really hope Win7 fixes that for you, but unless you're completely uninstalling XP you should still upgrade it to SP2 or higher.

also:

Actually every drive I recommended was SATA. You just put the wrong one in cart.

I appreciate you thinking for yourself. It's a rare thing when it comes to tech. 2 things though: you learned something, and it doesn't matter. Well it might if the drive is bad, but that could have happened with the SATA too. The advantages of SATA over PATA/IDE is a thinner cable for better air flow, a newer interface, thus it will stick around longer (though IDE isn't going completely away any time soon, they are making boards with 0 or 1 ports rather than the usual 2), and data transfer speed, which is irrelevant on something as slow as an optical drive. I know I certainly made mistakes when I bought my computer. Free after rebate power supply, $200 AMD dual core, $200 DFI motherboard, $200 graphics card. Yeah, I'm lucky as hell that it didn't die on me.

So do you have a flash drive you can use or are you just going to let a computer sit around? When I bought windows 7, it was a direct download both times.

Well, I keep getting an error when I try to install it through that college thing that you showed me. I was reading about it and I think the problem is that since I'm running XP and the installation is just a normal express one, it won't work because I have to to a custom (clean) installation to upgrade from XP. I'm waiting for the disc that I also bought to come in the mail. Hopefully it'll come soon.. >_>

When I open the file, it works perfectly fine. I can see all the stuff that's on the dvd. I try this on other discs and My Computer freezes every time. I called LG support and the guy was like "Well if you can run dvds and listen to audio cds then everything should be working fine." Yeah, sure..

Also, I forget to mention that whenever I take the cd out, an error box comes up saying that there's no cd in the drive. It looks like the drive is trying to run the cd the entire time that it's in the drive, but it just never does. O.o

Another thing that it does is that it'll try to run the disc, but then a message will come up saying it encountered a problem and needs to close. Like for Starcraft, it says that SETUP.EXE encountered a problem. If it's trying to run the disc but is not able to, could it be a problem with my computer? D:

And one last thing. When I update the drivers and the thing says that insert the cd if it came with one, the drivers are installed off of that cd during the installation process. It just doesn't load. :<

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jan 13 2011, 8:37 pm by Dem0nS1ayer.

Seems the drive itself is fine, but something is odd about your XP installation. Are you using service pack 2 or 3? If not, install SP3.

You seem to have a very weird problem on your hand, the type of which is going to be very difficult to google for with general terms. One thing you can try, which is unlikely to make any difference at all, is to turn off auto play. Google instructions for that.

You don't know how right he is... It should work.
I've never heard about a problem like you describe and I've dealt with a lot of problems with computers... Still I'd say it's the drive's fault since Windows is apparently able to view files of removable media.
I know a similar, but far less severe problem: When you burn a CD it might not work in your friend's CD drive just because the CDs of that manufacturer are incompatible with the drive. But this happens only for disc you burnt yourself, never for discs written in a factory. And then it's still relatively rare. Most combinations of blank discs/drives work just fine, and expensive drives usually work with all media.
Long story short, the drive might be damaged, but not broken. Just send it in to Newegg and get another, or if you have the chance, try another from a friend. No driver installation needed. Just connect another drive (turn computer off for that!) and you can instantly use it after reboot.

only if it still fucks up when fully updated.

hold down shift when you insert the cd. then attempt to explore the cd. Copy the files to your hard drive if you can.

what drivers, what thing, which it? What are you trying to load?

It worked when my sound and graphics drivers were being updated. It said to insert the CD if it came with one, I did so, and it worked.

you mean the add new hardware wizard?

Yes.

New fucking problem. Pissing me the fuck off. I got the Windows 7 upgrade disc today, and after I clicked on "Install", it comes up with a message saying that it can't find the CD/DVD Drives and that I need to choose a drive.

....What drive? What the hell is this asking me to do? I've read on other sites about putting the mobo drivers onto a flashdrive and choosing them from there; is that what it wants me to do? I also read that you need to reformat your HDD, which I did, but it didn't help, so I lost my whole fucking hard drive (not that I had anything on it, it's just annoying to have to reinstall XP again and then try to upgrade to Windows 7).