Hi there, I just got a new mobo and chip (an intel D845EBG2 and P4 2.0 GHz), and moved my DVD and cd-rw drives over, as well as my old HD. When I moved my HD I formatted and newly installed Win XP home onto it. I have since downloaded all service packs available from microsoft. So heres my problem... I cannot get my CD-RW drive (Yamaha 2200E, I bought it under a year ago) to be recognized by XP... I mean it see that its there, but it cannot enable it for one reason or another. I feel it is a driver issue, however when I d/led the newest firware from Yamaha and executed it, it gives youa drop-down box to select your drive, and there is nothing there... I cannot browse, or enter it in manually either. When I look in the System Information it is listed as a "Problem Device". I have the drive as a slave to my DVD-ROM on the secondary IDE channel... any help on this is extremely appreciated.

? is was it working before you downloaded?you said:// I have since downloaded all service packs available from microsoft. // big fatal mistake if you have read some of the xp forum replys theres a lot of people that are very sorry they download those sp1 patches etc. it screwed there windows xp up so much they ended up reformating and never installing any of them again, like me yes i made the same misstake i downloaded them and it mess up my xp windows then i reformated and i am a happy camper now.

Also with Xp certain 2000 drivers will work. If you have the big ? for the device then see if you can find a 200 driver for the burner and try updating the driver to it and see what happens. In any event the ? device needs to be fixed before the drive can be accessed. Raven

Thanks all, got it to work... changed IDE cables and then reintslled the drive... seems to be workin now