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recogniWindows XP will notze my CDRom drive
For a while now My computer wont recognize any cdrom drive. What I mean is it wont even have the icon in "my computer" at all. Ive tryed swapping the cd rom drive with one i know works and also changing the IDE cables however niether has any effect. When I first connect the cdrom and start up the computer the plug and play thing pops up and says it found the cdrom drive, but then when i go into device manager it says it is unable to find it with error 41. Another wierd symptom is when i remove the driver and reboot windows exp during the boot process it says that i have no secondary master and that i should switch the slave drive to master. Once again I have swapped the ide cables around to ensure they are in correctly and still no result. My problem has gotten progressivly worse and My computer wont even start up with the secondary ide cable plugged into the motehr board. I am pretty sure that the problem lies with either windows xp or my mother board. Finally i would imagine that a format of the harddrive and a clean install could fix this problem (if it is with windows) but i cant do this with out a functional cdrom drive. Thanks for any advice or sollutions -- TriForce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TriForce's Profile: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...tml?userid=676 View this thread: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...phtml?t=136543 |
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recogniWindows XP will notze my CDRom drive
Is everything being correctly identified in your BIOS?
How old is the motherboard? The battery could require replacement as the BIOS might be losing all info. "TriForce" wrote in message ... For a while now My computer wont recognize any cdrom drive. What I mean is it wont even have the icon in "my computer" at all. Ive tryed swapping the cd rom drive with one i know works and also changing the IDE cables however niether has any effect. When I first connect the cdrom and start up the computer the plug and play thing pops up and says it found the cdrom drive, but then when i go into device manager it says it is unable to find it with error 41. Another wierd symptom is when i remove the driver and reboot windows exp during the boot process it says that i have no secondary master and that i should switch the slave drive to master. Once again I have swapped the ide cables around to ensure they are in correctly and still no result. My problem has gotten progressivly worse and My computer wont even start up with the secondary ide cable plugged into the motehr board. I am pretty sure that the problem lies with either windows xp or my mother board. Finally i would imagine that a format of the harddrive and a clean install could fix this problem (if it is with windows) but i cant do this with out a functional cdrom drive. Thanks for any advice or sollutions -- TriForce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TriForce's Profile: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...tml?userid=676 View this thread: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...phtml?t=136543 |
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recogniWindows XP will notze my CDRom drive
Make sure your jumper settings on the CD-ROM are correct.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;310123 r. "TriForce" wrote in message ... For a while now My computer wont recognize any cdrom drive. What I mean is it wont even have the icon in "my computer" at all. Ive tryed swapping the cd rom drive with one i know works and also changing the IDE cables however niether has any effect. When I first connect the cdrom and start up the computer the plug and play thing pops up and says it found the cdrom drive, but then when i go into device manager it says it is unable to find it with error 41. Another wierd symptom is when i remove the driver and reboot windows exp during the boot process it says that i have no secondary master and that i should switch the slave drive to master. Once again I have swapped the ide cables around to ensure they are in correctly and still no result. My problem has gotten progressivly worse and My computer wont even start up with the secondary ide cable plugged into the motehr board. I am pretty sure that the problem lies with either windows xp or my mother board. Finally i would imagine that a format of the harddrive and a clean install could fix this problem (if it is with windows) but i cant do this with out a functional cdrom drive. Thanks for any advice or sollutions -- TriForce ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TriForce's Profile: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...tml?userid=676 View this thread: http://extremetechsupport.com/forum/...phtml?t=136543 |
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