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CD-ROM Drive Problem
Name: Miles Saunders Date: November 9, 2006 at 14:09:01 Pacific OS: XP Prof. SP2 CPU/Ram: P4 3Ghz 512mb Product: Dell
Comment:
Hi,
My cd-rom drive suddenly stopped working. It's all connected as im getting power. Ive checked connections inside the pc and no problems there.
It doesn't appear in My Computer. When I go to device manager i get this:
Name: don2006 Date: November 9, 2006 at 15:25:14 Pacific
Reply:
It was hard to read but it said something about windows couldn't initialize the service. Open the control panel, administrative tools and services. Make sure that DCOM and RPC are started.
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Response Number 2
Name: Miles Saunders Date: November 10, 2006 at 12:16:32 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick reply.
The message is Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)
DCOM and RPC are already running.
Miles
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Response Number 3
Name: don2006 Date: November 12, 2006 at 16:58:17 Pacific
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