Hi, My cousin gave me a job to to, take a semi-broken computer (Compaq) and a busted one (eMachines) to make a working one. So far I have had one problem, it is with the CD-RW drive off of the eMachines, a LITE-ON LTR-482465. The problem it that it will not read any discs (the DVD-ROM from the eMachines works fine, it is what I used to install windows with). I think it is a driver problem, so I went to driverguide.com and found a win98 driver for it (apparently other people have the same problem when using 98), but here's where it gets really confusing. When I run the driver executable it says that it is for the LITE-ON LTR-48246S drive only, then it lists the detected drives, one of them (the drive in question) it EXACTLY the same. I have tried different arrangements for the drive as follows: (all are on the secondary IDE channel, cable select is not used for any) first (and prefered): CD-RW Slave, DVD-ROM master, DMA enabled for both second: CD-RW master, DVD-ROM slave, DMA for both third: CD-RW Master, no slave, DMA enabled fourth: DC-RW Master, no slave, DMA disabled Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks. P.S. Do you think I should try ME or 2000?

You do not need special drivers for ATAPI devices, they're already included in Windows. When you originally removed the drives, were any of them set to Cable Select? I rarely use it, but I've run across OEM systems that won't recognize the drives any other way. Generally it's best not to pair up two optical drives on the same cable, especially if you copy on the fly. Disable DMA. Try installing the burner as 2ndary master by using Cable Select & connecting it to the end plug. You *may* need an 80-wire ribbon cable rather than a 40-wire cable.

"When I run the driver executable it says that it is for the LITE-ON LTR-48246S drive only, then it lists the detected drives, one of them (the drive in question) it EXACTLY the same." That looks good so go with it. Note: LTR-48246S vs LTR-482465? Bryan

Bryco: They are both LTR-48246S jam: Both computers are OEM. The computer I removed the drives from used cable select and 40-conductor cable (on the secondary channel, the primary had 80-conductor and a hard drive set to Cable Select), the one I put them was not configured to use cable select, and the chipset, SiS 5595, (to my knowlede) cannot take advantage of the benifits of 80-conductor cable, I will try it with them set to cable select.

I set them to Cable Select, but no luck. Thanks for your help in this. I am going to see what Win ME and Win 2k do

Neither ME or 2000 worked. Same problem with both. I will now try the drive in another eMachines computer that I have.

The other eMachines computer didn't work (note: this one is MUCH older then the one it came out of), I do not have any other eMachines computers to try it on.