DVD-Rom read error

[Art]

I added a DVD-Rom drive to my system, attached via an IDE/PCI card. I
can play music and dvd's from the drive fine, but if I try to run any
..exe file (like for setup.exe) XP gives me an error. Any ideas?

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"Art" <yardline@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:23633505.0403241852.7d3226f5@posting.google.com... I added a DVD-Rom drive to my system, attached via an IDE/PCI card. I can play music and dvd's from the drive fine, but if I try to run any .exe file (like for setup.exe) XP gives me an error. Any ideas?

What kind of error?

I used to get errors whenever I used I DVD-ROM in conjunction with hard
drive writes (installing software, copying files) but it always played
movies and music OK. Sounds similar to your problem, though this was when I
had Win98SE and Win 2000 Pro. To cure it, I had to put the DVD-ROM drive by
itself on an IDE cable (not sure if yours is like that or not). At the time
I had a 2 hard drives and a CD Burner along with the DVD-ROM and tried the 4
devices in all combinations on the 2 IDE ribbons to no avail. It was not
until it was alone on a cable that it worked fine.

Ever since then, when building a new system, if the motherboard does not
have a separate ATA controller I get a PCI ATA controller card and connect
the hard drives to that. I leave the DVD-ROM on one IDE cable and a burner
on the other. Smooth sailing.