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Dvd drive goes missing..in bios too
Name: perthblue Date: June 17, 2005 at 16:20:35 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: p4 2ghz ram
Comment:
Sometimes when I reboot...but not always..my second dvd drive is either not found at all or it`s name is corrupt(it`s a pioneer dvr 109) I have entered setup at boot and sometimes the bios recognises the drive and sometimes it doesn`t...any ideas? Thanks
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: June 17, 2005 at 16:36:24 Pacific
Reply:
Have you checked the cables? I'd do that first..
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Response Number 2
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: June 17, 2005 at 19:03:00 Pacific
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are you running roxio ez cd creator by chance? if so, update it, there is a known bug that does this. if not, do a windows update anyway as there may be a windows hardware patch for your drive
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Response Number 3
Name: perthblue Date: June 17, 2005 at 22:22:21 Pacific
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Thanks for the replies
I have replaced the drive cable already.I`m not using roxio and the windows updates are current.I can`t understand why most times I reboot the dvd drive is found ok..but then sometimes when I reboot it isnt??
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Response Number 4
Name: Dirty_Sanchez Date: June 18, 2005 at 16:01:24 Pacific
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if you have more than one cd/dvd devive make sure your jumpers are set to master/slave in stead of cable select. Also, check your event log and see if any errors are listed. hell it may be real simple, you might just need to flash your bios but only do thaqt as a last resort as you can really F up your system if it were to fail.
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