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12-23-2008, 08:02 AM
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Please help
Hi All,
All of a sudden the system won't recognize my CD-ROM Drive and DVD Drive. I removed component one by one but still did not solve the problem. I even swapped with a known good drive. Please help. Thank you
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12-23-2008, 08:50 AM
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In an unplugged machine: Try another connection on the motherboard with the original cable- if it works then the first connection site is suspect. If not take the cable off of and replace it with a new or known workling one. If it works then the cable went south.. If not then try the device in another PC. It will at least showe up as a CD/DVD ROM on boot. Try another CD/DVD in yours.
Is it enabled in BIOS?
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12-23-2008, 08:54 AM
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Does the drives activity light blink when you boot the PC? Doe the optical drive show in Device manager or the Bios? IDE or SATA? Have you tried a different power plug (4-Pin Molex connector)
If it/they are recognized in Device manager: Uninstall it/them --reboot the PC and Windows will reinstall. |
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12-23-2008, 09:06 AM
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I also tried changed the cable but did not solve.
Yes, the devices show in the manager with the yellow ! mark on both. I uninstalled several times but still unsolved. Thank you, |
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12-23-2008, 10:17 AM
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The system able to boot from the CD drives without problem but it won't recognized the drives when into windows.
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12-23-2008, 10:24 AM
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12-23-2008, 11:47 AM
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That was awesome, thank you Not Important.
it fixed. Yaaaaaaaahoooooooo. |
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12-23-2008, 11:52 AM
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Any reason why the system did that?
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12-23-2008, 12:23 PM
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It's usually caused by uninstalling CD burning software.
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12-23-2008, 12:47 PM
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Glad you got it fixed. I had no idea why that happens but glc has enlightened us.
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