My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...

[hex-]

Yea...they worked before, but recently windows isn't recognizing them. They show up at bootup and in the BIOS settings, I've tried reinstalling them, unplugging and replugging in the IDE cables, running a virus scan...they still show up with a ! in a triangle in the Hardware Manager.

Help?

[rs8389]

Did you install anything prior to this?  And what OS are you on?

[hex-]

WindowsXP.

And nothing that I didn't have before I reformatted.

(Had to reformat a few weeks ago, but even after that the CD-ROMs were recognized)

[merlin_2]

reg patch? maybe needed.......cdgone>>http://aumha.org/regfiles.htm

[hex-]

YES! IT WORKED!

^__^

Thank you so much!

[merlin_2]

Thanks for the feedback.......and surf safely......from all of us  here..........a web family help site...... another happy pc user hits the bytes:)