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CD Drives Not responding?????
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:45 am
by Baine
Hello (again to those who know me)
This is the second time a problem has occurred with my CD (and DVD) drives. I have a CD-R/RW, CD-ROM drive and a DVD-R/RW drive, and when I stick a CD/DVD in the drives, they don't respond - ie they don't recognise that there's a disc in them - no matter what I put in them
Does anyone know what's going on? Or have any sensible solutions - I've tried googling it, but with no success......
Thanks if anyone can help
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:50 am
by Cypher
Baine wrote:Hello (again to those who know me)
This is the second time a problem has occurred with my CD (and DVD) drives. I have a CD-R/RW, CD-ROM drive and a DVD-R/RW drive, and when I stick a CD/DVD in the drives, they don't respond - ie they don't recognise that there's a disc in them - no matter what I put in them
Does anyone know what's going on? Or have any sensible solutions - I've tried googling it, but with no success......
Thanks if anyone can help
This happened to me when I flashed my P4C800E-DLX to the 1017 Bios. Reverting to 1016 using the /pbnc switch fixed it here.
I would suggest you look in device manager to make sure the drive controllers settings are correct. Do the same in the Bios as well. If it's still no go try re-installing your chipset drivers.
If you ran any registry or system cleaning utilities they can sometimes remove items that you need. Hopefully they created backups that you can restore to if the chipset drivers doesn't fix it.
One more thing is to verify that the handler for said files has not been changed. Defaulting them should fix this if that's the case.
I've also seen that not setting the CDR as "master" and CD ROM as slave also do this before as well.
There's a few options for you to troubleshoot this issue. Try the above suggestions and save the chipset driver approach last. There's no reason to do that if it's not nessecary.
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 4:54 pm
by Baine
Thanks a million, will get to work on it asap!
Cheers for answering so soon too
Baine
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:43 pm
by Cypher
Baine wrote: Thanks a million, will get to work on it asap!
Cheers for answering so soon too
Baine
NP
I hope that fixes it for you.
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:18 pm
by Baine
Things went rather wrong, and I've finally ended up having to format my system, but a friend described similar problems, which resolved when removing Win XP Pro SP2 - any clues as to why this could be?
Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 2:53 pm
by Cypher
That sucks. I know that SP2 doesn't play nice with certain HW and SW. There is a compatibility list on their site about it.