zeppelin Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Hi, I bought an LG WH16NS40 blu-ray drive for my hackintosh (more specs below), and the computer keeps opening the drive upon boot up and such. I thought it might be an OS issue, but when I wiped the OS clean for a fresh install (I switched from the method that is not supported by this website to the clover rampage dev method) it kept doing it -- even in the in between when there was no OS on the system or anything, so I figure it's bios related?!. Right now, I decided to take the side off the case and unplug the damn thing because it's a pain. Any thoughts on how to fix? I suspect it's something in the bios, but I need some help please in problem solving. Thanks Mobo: Asus X99 Deluxe CPU: Intel 5820k Graphics: Zotec GTX 980 Amp! Other Hardware: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2666 Mhz Memory - 32 gigNZXT Internal Card ReaderLG WH16NS40 Internal Blu-ray WriterIOGear Bluetooth 4.0 USB adapterFirewire Card - PEX1394B3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 have you tried updating the drives firmware? http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-WH16NS40also have you tried reproducing the issue without the Sata cable plugged in only leaving the power to it connected. that would narrow it down to the drive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin Posted November 2, 2015 Author Share Posted November 2, 2015 have you tried updating the drives firmware? http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-WH16NS40also have you tried reproducing the issue without the Sata cable plugged in only leaving the power to it connected. that would narrow it down to the drive. thanks - I didn't think about the power cable part. I will try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin Posted November 13, 2015 Author Share Posted November 13, 2015 have you tried updating the drives firmware? http://www.lg.com/us/support-product/lg-WH16NS40also have you tried reproducing the issue without the Sata cable plugged in only leaving the power to it connected. that would narrow it down to the drive. Ok, so I took it back. I got a Sony Optiarc 5280s-cb plus and it's doing the same thing. I tried removing the sata cable with this one (just to check) - and it doesn't open without the sata port connected. I went into the BIOS and the drive was listed as first to boot. So I actually disabled the drive from being a boot option (the only option is the SSD now), and guess what, it's still opening. Frustrated with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted November 13, 2015 Share Posted November 13, 2015 it might be a feature of asus EZ flash bios. i got this from the manual section 3.11 updating bios ASUS EZ Flash 2: Updates the BIOS using a USB flash drive. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3: Restores the BIOS using the motherboard support DVD or a USB flash drive when the BIOS fails or gets corrupted. ASUS BIOS Updater: Updates the BIOS in DOS environment using the motherboard support DVD and a USB flash disk drive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeppelin Posted November 16, 2015 Author Share Posted November 16, 2015 it might be a feature of asus EZ flash bios. i got this from the manual section 3.11 updating bios ASUS EZ Flash 2: Updates the BIOS using a USB flash drive. ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3: Restores the BIOS using the motherboard support DVD or a USB flash drive when the BIOS fails or gets corrupted. ASUS BIOS Updater: Updates the BIOS in DOS environment using the motherboard support DVD and a USB flash disk drive. Thanks. I'm keeping this for later, just in case. It turns out that I had it plugged into a Sata Express port, which a friend suggested will work the same as the Sata port (as long as I had a sata cable only in it. It did not. I moved the DVD drive to another port, just "Sata" and it works fine now. Rick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronxteck Posted November 16, 2015 Share Posted November 16, 2015 at least it was a simple solution to the issue. cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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