First, some background information.
I recently bought a new hard-drive and DVD-R drive, both SATA. I hooked them both up, installed Windows on the new hard-drive and managed to install my mother boards drivers.
Both installing Windows XP and the Drivers required CD's, and my DVD-R worked perfectly for those, however, once the drivers were installed I tried to use a DVD and it stopped working.
The first thing I did was perform a system restore, as I had nothing to lose in doing so (it being a new hard-drive and me not having installed anything on it) after the system restore my CD-Drive appeared to be working again, however, I didn't actually need to run anything off it (as the executable for my drivers remained despite the system restore).
That's the background, now let me give you all the relevant information:
Windows detects nothing wrong with it, I've been through all their trouble-shooting and I came to these forums in hopes of getting something that's not taken directly out of a troubleshooting guide.
If I have a CD in my drive Windows does not start up, it stays at 'welcome' for a while then goes into a blank desktop (that is, a background without and GUI)
While I can't see any particularly eye-catching words/phrases/brand-names on the DVD-R drive, in device manager it is called 'HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10'
If you need any further information ask for it in this topic, although I'm not sure what else I can provide.
Thanks.
