Recurring Issue With Multiple Pioneer Drives
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:57 pm
Hi everyone, I was hoping if I could get some help with an issue I've been having with Pioneer drives in my PC. This isn't explicitly makemkv related, but I thought if anywhere is gonna have the knowledge and expertise to help - it'd probably be here:
Basically, CD Playback / Reading is completely broken with crackles, pops and skips and any rip I make will suffer from this; using a tool like Imgburn to compare a disc with an exact image file will also throw a massive amount of read errors, and EAC will report that all tracks ripped from a CD are inaccurate.
When I noticed this, I assumed that the CD laser of my drive (Pioneer BDR-S09) was on the way out, so I decided to splash out on a BDR-S13J-X to replace it. To my horror though, once I installed it in my computer...it was behaving in the exact same way.
I have an old Samsung DVD Drive which I've since tested in this PC and it works perfectly, as does an external LG drive. I originally noticed this behaviour of my BDR-S09 after I'd finished building a new Ryzen based system about 6 months ago, but as I didn't test the drive right away it never ocurred to me that the PC itself may be the cause of this problem. All I know is that prior to building this computer my BDR-S09 worked flawlessly in my old Haswell system - so there's obviously something which my PC doesn't like about Pioneer drives or vice versa.
I've tried absolutely everything I can think of, a new SATA cable, disabled TPM, tested it on an ancient version of Windows 10, disabled secure boot, updated chipset drivers etc. and nothing has worked.
All I can think of is that there's some form of incompatibility between the Drives and my Motherboard (whether that be the Motherboard itself, Chipset, SATA Controller, CPU) as I'm struggling to think of any other explanation for this. The only ideas I have left are to try the drives in an external enclosure (i.e. the enclosure itself can handle the SATA commands and convert the data into a USB signal - hopefully circumventing any potential compatibility issues), install the drives back into my old Haswell system (which I gave to a friend, so I don't have it on hand at the moment) to verify that they both work - and finally, I can try an old LG BD/HD-DVD Drive inside my PC to see if that at least works (again, this is with my friend at the moment). I also don't own an enclosure, and ideally I'd prefer not to buy one as they tend to be quite expensive and there's no guarantee it'll even work.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has encountered, or even heard, of anything like this happening in the past. It's just so bizarre, and it's not something I'd ever considered could even be a possibility. Regardless, I'll keep this thread updated with my findings just in case it can help someone else in the future.
Thanks in advance.
Basically, CD Playback / Reading is completely broken with crackles, pops and skips and any rip I make will suffer from this; using a tool like Imgburn to compare a disc with an exact image file will also throw a massive amount of read errors, and EAC will report that all tracks ripped from a CD are inaccurate.
When I noticed this, I assumed that the CD laser of my drive (Pioneer BDR-S09) was on the way out, so I decided to splash out on a BDR-S13J-X to replace it. To my horror though, once I installed it in my computer...it was behaving in the exact same way.
I have an old Samsung DVD Drive which I've since tested in this PC and it works perfectly, as does an external LG drive. I originally noticed this behaviour of my BDR-S09 after I'd finished building a new Ryzen based system about 6 months ago, but as I didn't test the drive right away it never ocurred to me that the PC itself may be the cause of this problem. All I know is that prior to building this computer my BDR-S09 worked flawlessly in my old Haswell system - so there's obviously something which my PC doesn't like about Pioneer drives or vice versa.
I've tried absolutely everything I can think of, a new SATA cable, disabled TPM, tested it on an ancient version of Windows 10, disabled secure boot, updated chipset drivers etc. and nothing has worked.
All I can think of is that there's some form of incompatibility between the Drives and my Motherboard (whether that be the Motherboard itself, Chipset, SATA Controller, CPU) as I'm struggling to think of any other explanation for this. The only ideas I have left are to try the drives in an external enclosure (i.e. the enclosure itself can handle the SATA commands and convert the data into a USB signal - hopefully circumventing any potential compatibility issues), install the drives back into my old Haswell system (which I gave to a friend, so I don't have it on hand at the moment) to verify that they both work - and finally, I can try an old LG BD/HD-DVD Drive inside my PC to see if that at least works (again, this is with my friend at the moment). I also don't own an enclosure, and ideally I'd prefer not to buy one as they tend to be quite expensive and there's no guarantee it'll even work.
I'm just wondering whether anyone else has encountered, or even heard, of anything like this happening in the past. It's just so bizarre, and it's not something I'd ever considered could even be a possibility. Regardless, I'll keep this thread updated with my findings just in case it can help someone else in the future.
Thanks in advance.