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CD Rom drive missing from devices
Name: narfette Date: August 26, 2006 at 10:55:00 Pacific OS: win me CPU/Ram: . Product: hp
Comment:
Hi, im not sure why, but the cdrom is no longer present on my system devices. also, there is a yellow exclamation mark next to my floppy drive and the primary and secondary IDE controller..
i have tried removing all of these from the device manager and reinstalling, but once i have reinstalled the exclamation marks are still there, and there is still no cd rom drive.
i also tried to install the cdrom driver again, but this error appeared -
Name: dosser Date: August 26, 2006 at 12:43:44 Pacific
Reply:
Install the latest Chipset Drivers available from the Chipset manufacturer.
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Response Number 2
Name: narfette Date: August 26, 2006 at 13:22:35 Pacific
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ive tried the chipset thing. it said it was up to date
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: August 26, 2006 at 13:28:48 Pacific
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boot into safe mode...go to device manager & remove ALL listings for your CD-ROMs, then reboot
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Response Number 4
Name: narfette Date: August 26, 2006 at 14:16:21 Pacific
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ive tried this aswell.. they dont reinstall when i reboot.
theres nothing for cdroms in devices in normal or safe mode
is it something to do with the IDE controllers?
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Response Number 5
Name: jam Date: August 26, 2006 at 15:15:18 Pacific
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boot back into safe mode again, go back into device manager, & look at every entry on the list. If you find any duplicates, remove ALL entries for that device. For example, click on the + next to Disk drives...if "floppy disk" is listed more than once, remove ALL entries, don't leave one behind because on the reboot, another will be reinstalled & you'll have 2 entries again. Do the same for Display Adapters, Floppy disk controllers, etc
Reinstall your motherboard chipset drivers. Make sure you're using the right ones....
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Response Number 6
Name: jam Date: August 26, 2006 at 17:34:50 Pacific
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Just to add...it doen't help that you haven't listed the make/model of your PC or the motherboard make/model or the chipset the board is based on.
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Response Number 7
Name: narfette Date: August 28, 2006 at 02:23:06 Pacific
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its a hp pavilion 8760, intel 82810E. Im not sure what to look at for mother board specs.
is its safe to remove all the system devices in the device manager?
also, when i try to remove the ide controllers, it says i cant remove the secondary and primary controllers because they are not the parent entry. when i remove the parent, the primary and secondary ide's arent removed with it..
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