I recently purchased the I/O Magic IDVD16DLS. When I turned on the power to my computer it did not boot up. I unplugged the power on the DVD drive and then my computer started up. After my computer started I plugged the power back into the drive and it worked fine. The next time I restarted my computer it wouldn't restart after it shut down. So I unplugged the power and restarted the computer and it started right up. What gives? Everytime I restart my computer I'm going to have to unplug the dvd drive's power.

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Have you others drives attached to the same ide cable.

Check that drives are jumpered correctly master or slave.

I had the exact same problem a while back with a BenQ drive, but I don't remember now which BenQ drive it was (either a 1620, 1640 or a 1650/1655 drive - I've had all of these installed at one time or another).

The problem turned out to be a conflict between the motherboard's nForce IDE drivers and and an early release of the BenQ drive's firmware. I solved it by uninstalling the IDE part of the nForce drivers and then I shut the system down and reconnected the drive. The system booted fine with the native Microsoft IDE drivers installed and the drive connected.

I then updated my BenQ drive's firmware to a more current firmware version to eliminate any possible future issues. And a firmware upgrade is generally a good thing to do anyway with DVD burners.

Finally (a few weeks later), I ended up reinstalling the nForce IDE drivers, as I felt they were a bit faster than the Microsoft ones.