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Warmel · 05-06-2004, 01:51 AM

Ok, Im having a huge problem with my CD-RW drive and my DVD-rom drive. I just baught one of those rounded IDE cables for my computer and hooked it up to my CD-RW and DVD drives. I hooked it up correctly, with my dvd-rom in the slave and my cd-rw as master. I had this set-up working just fine previously with the regular flat IDE cable. Anyways, for whatever reason, windows now just doesnt want to recongize the two drives anymore. If I go to my controll panel and click on the add hardware, both drives show up. However it says

"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device (Code 41)".

It says this for both drives. What I dont get too is my motherboard recongizes it because when I start my computer it shows both of them.

I tried to do some troubleshooting by going back to the original cable but now I get the same problem. Windows still cannot find the devices with the flat IDE cable I had in before I switched. I also hooked up my new rounded IDE cable to my hard-drive and it see's that so I know the cable isn't bad.

If there is anything anyone can think of it would be greatly appreaciated as im all out of idea's. Thanks

Here are my Specs:

P4 2.8c 800fbs
DFI PS83- BC/BL
ATI 9600 XT
PNY 512mb 3200 ram
Western digital 120gb hard-drive
Memorex CD-RW drive
LG DVD-ROM drive

05-06-2004, 01:51 AM	#1
Warmel Member (6 bit) Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 33	CD-RW/DVD rom drive problems Ok, Im having a huge problem with my CD-RW drive and my DVD-rom drive. I just baught one of those rounded IDE cables for my computer and hooked it up to my CD-RW and DVD drives. I hooked it up correctly, with my dvd-rom in the slave and my cd-rw as master. I had this set-up working just fine previously with the regular flat IDE cable. Anyways, for whatever reason, windows now just doesnt want to recongize the two drives anymore. If I go to my controll panel and click on the add hardware, both drives show up. However it says "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device (Code 41)". It says this for both drives. What I dont get too is my motherboard recongizes it because when I start my computer it shows both of them. I tried to do some troubleshooting by going back to the original cable but now I get the same problem. Windows still cannot find the devices with the flat IDE cable I had in before I switched. I also hooked up my new rounded IDE cable to my hard-drive and it see's that so I know the cable isn't bad. If there is anything anyone can think of it would be greatly appreaciated as im all out of idea's. Thanks Here are my Specs: P4 2.8c 800fbs DFI PS83- BC/BL ATI 9600 XT PNY 512mb 3200 ram Western digital 120gb hard-drive Memorex CD-RW drive LG DVD-ROM drive Last edited by Warmel; 05-06-2004 at 02:33 AM.