IDE problems with KT4V-L?

Hi, I am trying to resolve a long standing problem with regards to cd/dvd drive issues - both with reading and burning. I have had a system based around the KT4V-L mobo for about 3 years now and about 2 years ago I started experiencing problems with my msi cdrw drive- problems reading and burning discs, both blank and written. I tried various possible solutions i.e. new cable, different ide placement, firmware upgrade, different burning software, via drivers, various WXP tweaks, mobo bios upgrade/tweaks, even a fresh XP install (vanilla xp pro) but nothing would stop me churning out coasters. I then thought that the drive itself must be faulty and swapped it for a new one only to have exactly the same problem. I limped on for a good while (everything else works just fine) until dual layer dvd burners got cheaper and decided to swap my cdrw for a samsung dl dvdrw. Still same problems... especially with dvds. Another fresh install of WXP pro (sp2) has yielded no improvement nor has trying mandrake linux (ver. 10). Anyhoo, my thinking now is that there may be a fault with the onboard ide controller although my HDD has always worked fine... As I said before, I have tried all the different placements/settings with regards to ide connections/cables/jumpers and bios settings.
Sorry to bang on for so long but it has been driving me slowly mad for a good while Any help gratefully received as I am on the verge of binning the mobo and just buying a new (different) one...
MSI KT4V-L (Bios ver. 1.9)
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
2 x 512 MB DDR PC2700
MSI GeForce4 440SE AGP8x (64 MB)
SoundBlaster Live! Value (CT4670)
HDD 0 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 60 GB Ultra-ATA/133
TSSTcorp CD/DVDRW TS-H552B
Channel Well Technology 350W 3.3v - 20A, 5v - 35A, 12v - 17A
WinXp Pro SP2

Thanks for the response osnavi, the first cdrw drive was well under a year old when I changed it and had only had light to medium use. I agree that the power supply could be better but the fact remains that everything worked perfectly for the first year-ish. At that time I actually had another dvd drive alongside the cdrw with no problems until this issue arose- I then had to physically remove the dvd drive to get the cdrw working at all. I currently have my HDD as primary master and the dvdrw as secondary master but as I said previously I have tried all the various settings available. The HDD is running in ultra dma mode 6 and the dvdrw is ultra dma mode 2 - I did have to reset this as WXP had demoted it to PIO mode only, presumably due to multiple errors... Re. the power supply issue, is it possible that the system ran fine for a year (with slightly more load due to the extra dvd drive) and then just b0rked out? I have had no other issues at all with this system and I am a fairly application heavy user (photoshop, quark, fps games etc). Is it also possible that the upgraded bios may have caused the problem as I did flash it from the original OTB bios to version 1.9 as directed by the msi live update system?
Thanks again for your interest.
MSI KT4V-L (Bios ver. 1.9)
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
2 x 512 MB DDR PC2700
MSI GeForce4 440SE AGP8x (64 MB)
SoundBlaster Live! Value (CT4670)
HDD 0 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 60 GB Ultra-ATA/133
TSSTcorp CD/DVDRW TS-H552B
Channel Well Technology 350W 3.3v - 20A, 5v - 35A, 12v - 17A
WinXp Pro SP2

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