This might be a bit lengthy, so apologies ahead of time.
A few months ago I tore down my X58 rig and rebuilt it on water instead of air. Since the rebuild I've been having issues with my optical drives. Every time I try to burn a CD/DVD, the "Mastered Disc" or basically "finalized" disc option is greyed out when using Windows to attempt to burn a CD. CD's and DVD's read perfect, I just can't burn a disc at all. Even the non-finalized or non-mastered type fails to burn correctly. Since then, I've been using a USB burner that works fine when burning. This has also happened with 3 separate internal SATA drives, so I highly doubt it's the drives at fault here. It's got to be something screwed up in my BIOS or Windows.
The only change in the hardware was that I went down to one DVD-RW instead of a DVD and a DVD-RW. Other than that, it's the same hardware in the system.
Some relevant information:
-Using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
-Drives were hooked up to the Jmicron controller on an EVGA X58 SLI (not Classified)
Things I have tried:
-Swapping the drives to the native Intel controller
-3 different drives pretty much eliminates the drives as the culprit
-Recently had to install Amazon MP3 downloader, tried to uninstall to see if this screwed it up
-Played around in the BIOS for settings that might help (neither IDE or AHCI mode works)
-New SATA cables
The most strange thing that happens is that if I use third party burning software, all of them show that I have an "incompatible drive" or "no compatible drive found"
Completely at a loss here, no idea what this could be.
Appreciate any help.
A few months ago I tore down my X58 rig and rebuilt it on water instead of air. Since the rebuild I've been having issues with my optical drives. Every time I try to burn a CD/DVD, the "Mastered Disc" or basically "finalized" disc option is greyed out when using Windows to attempt to burn a CD. CD's and DVD's read perfect, I just can't burn a disc at all. Even the non-finalized or non-mastered type fails to burn correctly. Since then, I've been using a USB burner that works fine when burning. This has also happened with 3 separate internal SATA drives, so I highly doubt it's the drives at fault here. It's got to be something screwed up in my BIOS or Windows.
The only change in the hardware was that I went down to one DVD-RW instead of a DVD and a DVD-RW. Other than that, it's the same hardware in the system.
Some relevant information:
-Using Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
-Drives were hooked up to the Jmicron controller on an EVGA X58 SLI (not Classified)
Things I have tried:
-Swapping the drives to the native Intel controller
-3 different drives pretty much eliminates the drives as the culprit
-Recently had to install Amazon MP3 downloader, tried to uninstall to see if this screwed it up
-Played around in the BIOS for settings that might help (neither IDE or AHCI mode works)
-New SATA cables
The most strange thing that happens is that if I use third party burning software, all of them show that I have an "incompatible drive" or "no compatible drive found"
Completely at a loss here, no idea what this could be.
Appreciate any help.