Summary: I think i may have shorted my CD-RW and DVD-rom. On a new system im building i plugged them and set everything up then when i turned the comp on i hea...
Summary: It is a cheap TurboLink 350 watt power supply. I may have overloaded it im not sure. But this is all i have in it. Athlon XP 2200+ Biostar m7vit-pro m...
Summary: put the harddrives on the same cable, the cd burner and dvd on the other cable there ata 33 or 66, i heard that the dvd should be master and the cd bu...
Summary: Hi My CD RW and DVD ROM drives don't allow me to access some CDs. I have cleaned the lenses on both drives hoping it would work but nada! What is ther...
Summary: Im sorry but this is gonna be very long winded so i am grateful for anyone that reads this even if they dont know what to do to fix it, but some sugge...
Summary: My cd-rw and dvd-rom were acting very bizarre yesterday. I was trying to install a program that has 3 installation disks, and when the installation is...
Summary: I have a Time Traveller laptop with a Mats---a CD-RW CW-8121. General CD access seems to be very temperamental. When playing games or opening folders ...
Summary: hi my cd-rw and my dvd stopped working from nothing and gives me a ! yellow, and i tried every thing and gives me the error 19 what should I do thank ...
Summary: "a dvd rom or cd rom it does not matter at all coz its bios setting is cd/dvd rom." You are very wrong here. If this second pc you are attempting to r...
Summary: Hi everyone. I've just purchased one of those USB/IDE adapters allowing you to have internal devices used externally - ideal i thought for using my HD...
Summary: "thx but i cant do that, the cd rom doesnt function to run xp repair..." Hello! You should be able to boot the XP CD in a CD drive regardless of wheth...
Summary: I just retried to connect the cd writer as normal and switch on to see if xp would detect it but xp wouldn,t start. it sat at a blank screen with my d...
Summary: Hi, This is my first post and I really hope someone can help. I've seen numerous discussions on the web similar to my problem but nothing that matches...
Summary: Thanks OtheHill for your reply... First off, did these optical drives function prior to installing the IDE drive? Yes, very well. If so, did you recon...
Summary: Trios make a device (I have one) that allows three HDD to boot from. You plug all three HD's in and set them to master. You then plug the one IDE ...
Summary: Okay, so I have been working on my fathers HP ZE5185 laptop for about (2) days now. He bought an external Sony DRX-700UL dual layer burner. It also ...
Summary: I have just installed a Pioneer DVR108 Dual layer burner, set as secondary master. It will process up to the point of just starting the burn and then ...
Summary: i think i fought it! ;] the solution is trivial. I removed cdrom in device manager and restarted computer. if that not help you, try to shut down, dis...
Summary: The CD-ROM doesn't appear in any file under "My Computer" and it doesn't read any type of cd. The tray opens and I put a cd inside but won't read it. ...
Summary: Every thing was working fine. I had a power loss due to a faulty appliance triping the power breaker. When I restarted my pc the drives would no longe...
Summary: for some reason my CD writer has totaly failed. it no longer reads music discs and wont write anything. when i try to play a music disc it says that w...
Summary: Yesterday I was chatting on my computer when all of a sudden my computer locked up for about... 3 seconds. After that, everything was fine, or so it s...
Summary: I just got my 8rda+ rev 1.1 a few days ago, i have a hitachi 8x dvd rom and a generic 6x4x24x cdrw. While installing xp xp1, (using the cd-rw for read...
Summary: I have a Win XP comp running at 1.9Ghz, 256 RAM, 40Gb with cd-rom/DVD combo drive and separate CDRW drive. I seem to be having sound problems with my ...
Summary: Hi All, I have a DVD Burner (master)and a CD-Rom Burner (slave) on the same ribbon plugged into IDE2 on my motherboard (MSI MS-6380 LE). The problem ...