Motherboard issues - tech advice needed.

Re83L

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Hi guys.

I recently made a post about a P5N-D overheating (which turns out, is the NB that runs very hot)

Now I've decided to switch the P5N-D + E6550 with a 560i motherboard and 5200+.

Windows 7 installed perfectly on the Intel combo

When I tried installing Windows on the AMD combo, it refuses to detect my DVD-RW and I can't get past a certain point in the installation process.
So I installed W7 using a USB drive, which worked, except that there was still no DVD-RW showing up in Windows, not even as an unidentified device in device manager.

So I switched back to the Intel combo.
Everything worked fine, the NB heatsink still gets super hot (normal), but now I'm sitting with a new dilemma.
The Intel combo is making a very high-pitched whining noise. It's so bad, it becomes unbearable.

Is a capacitor breaking down?

Does anybody have advice on how to get my PC to recognize my SATA DVD-RW?

My luck seems to be endlessly bad with these boards and cpu's.

Thanks in advance.
 
That's why I only use ide optical drives. :-)

Does your drive pick up in the bios?
 
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