Ok I am having a problem where windows shows an additional CD-ROM drive that physically does not exist. It shows an SCSI drive. I have never opened this computer before, but I believe that I don't even have SCSI (Dell Dimension 9100). Anyway I have tried removing the drive in device manager (even tried removing the SCSI controler) but it keeps coming back. I finally just disabled the drive letter in Comp Man, but it is still "there" (as I see it in device man). I'm sure I can get rid of it by a full OS recovery, but that is boring. I want to fix the problem, not just replace the car so to speak. Anyone have any sugestions? Here are images of device man and comp man: Comp Man: http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/... Device Man: http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/...

Go here and enter the ST number: http://support.dell.com/support/top... Life's more painless for the brainless.

Are you having an actual problem with your system or did you run across this "mystery" listing & jump into panic mode? Do you have an external HDD or thumbdrive connected? Are you running a program such as CloneDVD with a virtual drive?

... look control panel add/remove programs ... you'll more than likely have an installed burning "app" ... ie Nero, blah blah ... there should be an option to disable the virtual DVD/CD, sometimes up to 20 of them if you wish, one is a good option if you have never used one before its worth using to mount "iso's" images of CD's etc. EXAMPLE click here ... ok ya? Grrrr wat do I know? ... got brain freeze

"Ok I am having a problem where windows shows an additional CD-ROM drive that physically does not exist. It shows an SCSI drive." Not a problem really. It is to be expected--on your OEM supplied machine--if you have programs like ROXIO or some other OEM bundled burning software on your machine. The entry in the device manager is a pointer to the optical emulator device. Where your observation could be of potential concern is if you no longer have the software that installed the emulation driver on the machine. In that case, you would need to delete the driver files from your system32 directory. Good luck! Jabbering Idiots: Everywhere You Look!