You need to use an 80-wire, 40-pin IDE cable with Vista. The 80-wire cables
reduce the crosstalk between the 40 active wires. The 40-wire cables were
only effective in the days of much slower systems. Such an older cable
would indeed give the effect you are describing.

"John T" wrote in message
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Sorry if I was not clear

I re-used the old cable, a 40 pin IDE, I believe. It worked well on XP
with
the other Asus mobo.

Yes, I installed the chipset software after I finally got Vista to work, I
had a nightmare with it--15 hours with the guys in India trying to help.

This was a clean install of vista, on a clean hard drive


"solidliquidgas" wrote:


Have you tried reading other discs in your CD/DVD drive? How about
copying data from other sources to the destination partition? If you
narrow the problem down to the CD/DVD drive and it's not a driver or
firmware issue, there could be a problem with the drive itself or the
data cable.

Incidentally, when you say you did a major upgrade, do you mean a major
hardware upgrade involving the CPU and MoBo? And/or did you upgrade
your version of Windows?If the answer to either is "yes", did you
install the chipset software for the new board or for the existing board
in the new operating system?


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