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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: hex- on April 16, 2005, 12:10:15 PM

Title: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: hex- on April 16, 2005, 12:10:15 PM

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?

Title: Re: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: rs8389 on April 16, 2005, 12:13:38 PM

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

Title: Re: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: hex- on April 16, 2005, 12:17:26 PM

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)

Title: Re: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: merlin_2 on April 16, 2005, 02:08:43 PM

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

Title: Re: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: hex- on April 16, 2005, 02:41:10 PM

YES! IT WORKED!

^__^

Thank you so much!

Title: Re: My CD-ROM drives aren't being recognized...
Post by: merlin_2 on April 16, 2005, 03:23:05 PM

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