why did my dvd drive and emulated daemon drives disapear?

[theophilusmousse]

I'm on a celeron d e-machine at work --yeah i know, but it's what they give me-- the dvd drive was working on friday and i noticed that tuesday right after the power to the building cut out several times that both the emulated drives for deamon and the dvd drive were no longer recognized. i went into the device manager but it told me there was some kind of possible conflict. any ideas?

[FlyingPenguin]

Welcome to PCA!

I assume you've re-booted this computer?


Try disabling the DVD emulator in your startups. The emulator should have an options settings menu that allows you to specify whether it's started automatically when Windows starts. Disable it temporarily and do a shutdown and powerup (don't just do a restart).

See if that brings back the DVD. If it does, then you can re-enable the emulator.

If it doesn't then remove the DVD drive from the Device Manager and reboot. Windows SHOULD re-detect it (assuming it's working properly) and re-install the driver. Maybe the driver got corrupted by the surge.

They really shouldn't conflict with each other since one is hardware and one is software.

If that doesn't help, try going into the Disk Manager and see if maybe Windows has failed to assign the DVD a drive letter. Rightclick My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. See if the DVD is listed and if so, right click on it and assign it a drive letter (I doubt this is the problem since you're getting a device conflict in Device manager, but worth a try).

Since this coincided with a power surge, it's possible that the EIDE controller channel the DVD drive is using, or the DVD drive itself was damaged by the surge. That doesn't totally explain the problem with the DVD emulator though, but you could try unplugging the EIDE ribbon from the DVD drive and booting up to see if the DVD emulator works now. If it does, shut down again and reconnect the DVD and maybe it'll be okay. If reconnecting the DVD goofs it up again I'd say there's some dead hardware (DVD drive or EIDE controller).

Is there any other drive connected to the same EIDE ribbon as the DVD drive (another CD drive, another hard drive, or a zip drive? Try unplugging it and see if it allows the DVD drive to be detected.

Hope this helps...

[theophilusmousse]

yup... that did it. i had suspected that there might be something up with the driver but it hadn't occured to me to uninstall it and let windows re-install a fresh driver automatically. )* thanks for the help.

[Pugsley]

see i told ya it would be something stupid like that. I dont know why i didnt think about it! but hey, its all working now and thats good.

I work with theophilusmousse and told him to get involved here and that sombody wold know how to fix it.

Thanks to all and welecome to pca.