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vignatius

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    Dvd Drive not recognised
    « on: January 06, 2009, 08:35:06 PM »
    My DVD drive is not being recognised by my computer.

    I deleted the upper and lower registry and it still does not work.

    It was working before and then I had to use system restore and since then the DVD does not work.

    The drives have power.

    The BIOS is on auto.

    When compter boots Secondary Master and Slave say none.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks.
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    Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
    « Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 09:17:22 PM »
    If the BIOS does not see it then check tour cable connections...
    Otherwise the drive is probably dead.
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    vignatius

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      Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
      « Reply #2 on: January 07, 2009, 06:32:36 AM »
      I should also mention that my CD player is also not being recognised.
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      Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
      « Reply #3 on: January 07, 2009, 07:25:53 AM »
      If they were on the same IDE cable that would confirm either an unhooked/bad cable or yout secondary IDE channel on the MBoard is bad,

      Replace the cable
      What happened prior to this ? ?
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      vignatius

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        Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
        « Reply #4 on: January 10, 2009, 01:14:35 PM »
        What happened was that I unselected all my startup programs and services in msconfig. After I did this both the CD and DVD drives were not being detected by my computer. I tried to use system restore but it did not work.
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          Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
          « Reply #5 on: January 10, 2009, 01:15:59 PM »
          I should also add that I reselcted all my startup programs and services, and still does not work.
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          Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
          « Reply #6 on: January 10, 2009, 01:43:20 PM »
          Quote from: vignatius on January 10, 2009, 01:14:35 PM
          What happened was that I unselected all my startup programs and services in msconfig. After I did this both the CD and DVD drives were not being detected by my computer. I tried to use system restore but it did not work.
          Why did you do this ? ?
          Again is it being detected by the BIOS ? ?
          Did you try what was suggested above ? ?
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            Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
            « Reply #7 on: January 10, 2009, 02:29:36 PM »
            I did this to speed up my bootup. The BIOS does not detect anything. I did try what you said, the cables are all hooked up. It was suggested I reinstall Windows, could this help?
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            Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
            « Reply #8 on: January 10, 2009, 02:32:36 PM »
            No.
            If the BIOS is not detecting either of them you need a new cable and/or new drives...
            Windows is not the issue here.
            How many BIOS changes have you been fiddling with along with disabling services ? ?
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              Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
              « Reply #9 on: January 10, 2009, 02:50:23 PM »
              just the services were unselected. But I do have all them selected now.
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              Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
              « Reply #10 on: January 10, 2009, 03:16:21 PM »
              There was more than one question...
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                Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
                « Reply #11 on: January 10, 2009, 04:21:05 PM »
                I haven't made any other BIOS changes
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                Re: Dvd Drive not recognised
                « Reply #12 on: January 10, 2009, 04:27:38 PM »
                Try only one drive at a time...
                Jumper it as master and hook it up to the end connector on the ribbon cable...
                Re-boot a few times and see if it's recognised in the BIOS.
                If not try the drive on another machine.
                Did you check the ribbon cable connection at the motherboard ? ?
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