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this is more of a hardware question than a security question, but since i'm a n00b and couldn't find a more appropriate forum, here it is (i'm sure you guys will neg the hell out of me for this, and most of you tend to do)
One of my users has a win 2k box that cannot for the life of it load the driver for the CD-Rom. I've reinstalled the driver several times, and i can't seem to get it to work. It loads up in the Bios, and windows can recognize, but no driver. Any ideas?
What kind of CDRom is it? Have you checked the manufacturer's website??
As an FYI, General Chit Chat is the catch-all forum for things non-security related. Hence, the move to this forum. :D
If windows recognises your drive why do you need the driver? Are you sure the drive isn't broken? Any Windows 9x/NT/2K/XP version can use your cd without any need for a driver to be installed (if it's an IDE or SCSI drive that is).Quote:
Originally posted here by sickyourIT
this is more of a hardware question than a security question, but since i'm a n00b and couldn't find a more appropriate forum, here it is (i'm sure you guys will neg the hell out of me for this, and most of you tend to do)
One of my users has a win 2k box that cannot for the life of it load the driver for the CD-Rom. I've reinstalled the driver several times, and i can't seem to get it to work. It loads up in the Bios, and windows can recognize, but no driver. Any ideas?
I had a cd drive once, windows saw a cdrom drive but none of the cd's I put in there where readable. It turned out to be broken and after a replacement everything worked fine again.
A little more info would be nice.
Make and model of system. ... even a link to the machine on manufacturer website.
Make and model of cdrom.
Are there any confilcts in device manager? Start- control panel - admin tools - computer management - system devices
What happens if you manually remove the device from the devise manager and the refresh?
Does the event viewer have any relevant errors or information?
it's essentially a clone system. The cdrom itself is not really important, as i have tested this machine with several other CD Roms and a CDrw drive. To no avail. the device shows up in the device manager with the happy little /!\ sign on it, and it says that winders can't load the driver
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The cdrom itself is not really important
I would say the CDROM IS important then. If Win2k can't find it... you're gonna have to go to the CDROMs manufacturers site and get the drivers for it. Win2k does a pretty good job* at finding most of the hardware... but not all of it.Quote:
To no avail. the device shows up in the device manager with the happy little /!\ sign on it,
as i said before, i've tested this machine with several different CD-Rom and CD-RW drives, I even took the Rom out of my machine (because i knew this rom worked) and tested it on this one. Each drive was a different manufacturer, but windows was never able to load a driver
If you've tested it in multiple machines and multiple variations of windows and it detected but never worked, then I'd think that'd be an indication that there is something wrong. Have you checked the pins to see if any are bent? Is it a SCSI drive or an IDE/EIDE drive? Is the cable ok? Cable bent too much, torn, etc?
nothing's bent or broken, it's an IDE drive. i've tried it on two different cables, with all sorts of cable settings. the drive has power and all, and can eject, etc. -> really ironic thing>> i can boot from this drive, but win2k refuses to speak to it
Then we get back to the make and model of the drive as perhaps it needs a driver downloaded from the website for better support.
Or... Virus?! Maybe interferring with the drive?
Maybe the media itself? Some drives are ultra-picky about the burn quality.
*Throwing out ideas at random here*
Driver issue... see my post above. If its showing up with a ! next to it in the device manager, that simply means that Win2k doesn't have a suitable driver. not EVERTHING is plug and play.Quote:
etc. -> really ironic thing>> i can boot from this drive, but win2k refuses to speak to it
Visit the manufacutere and save the driver to the hard drive. Then go into device manager, CDROM properties, advanced, update driver, and choose have disk. browse to location of driver.
I have had the same problem. Win2k doesn't always find every single device.
There is that stray device that it doesn't know. Hell, took me like a week to find appropriate drivers for a sound card...
*could have some of the steps messed up... I did it quickly from memory*
This happened to me about a year ago, except it was a 98 box.
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=222636
After the <sarcasm>awesome</sarcasm> help I got from s0ny did nothing, I waited till the warranty expired, then opened it up. Sure enough, the gears were all fuxored up and out of alignment in there. If I were you/them, I'd call the company to get it replaced before the warranty runs out, so that you can save them the pain of owning a VERY expensive paperweight.
Good luck.
I know it may be a pain, but if you have tried several different
drives, the BIOS finds it, and you can boot from it, it doesn't
sound like a hardware problem.
You may have to reinstall your OS, or better yet, a different
one, to see if it will fix it. Your installation may be corrupted
somehow, in which case a reinstall will fix it. Or it may be a win2k
issue, and microsoft may have a bug fix.
:cool: