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CD-ROM is gone
Name: Randy Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:05:27 Pacific
Comment:
I still am having a big problem finding where my cd-rom and cdr are. The system doesnt recognize that they installed at all. Nothing shows up on the device manager.. I havent unstalled anything lately, (burning software, drivers...) I looked in the Bois and couldnt find anything i could change to make them show up.
Ive phyically unplugged the cd-rom and cdr then restarted, then plugged them back it without anything coming up..
Name: Alex Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:10:42 Pacific
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Is your CD ROM SCSI? (is it plugged in to the mother board or in another card?) If it is connected to another card then you will have to find drivers for your CD -ROM. Go to your device manager and find anything that has an exclamation mark located near it. Update the driver for it (from CD that came with CD ROM drive) That should do the trick
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Response Number 2
Name: Alex Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:12:16 Pacific
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Me again. What i ment was is your CD-ROM drive connected directly to MOBO or to another card
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Response Number 3
Name: Randy Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:19:28 Pacific
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The cdr and cdrom are connected with a ribbon cable.. CD_rom to cdr to mother board..
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Response Number 4
Name: Randy Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:21:47 Pacific
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Also, nothing in the device manager comes up as a conflict, and the cd-rom and cd do NOT show up... thanks so far
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Response Number 5
Name: Daryl Date: June 17, 2002 at 05:59:59 Pacific
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Did you happen to install Roxio's Easy CD Creator (formerly Adaptec)? When I did, all of my optical drives disappeared. I found a number of references to this on both the Roxio and the Hewlett Packard websites, along with a host of possible remedies. The one that finally worked involved deleting something in the Registry.
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Response Number 6
Name: Randy Date: June 17, 2002 at 06:05:37 Pacific
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Okay i figured it out.... For some reason the secondary ide was switched off.. I have no idea why or how this happened but it did. (ah, the beauty of IT) I just switched them to AUTO and now all is good in my world..
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