CD-ROM Driver Not Being Loaded

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 6:31 am

In Win2k, title says it all. Worked absolutely fine untill my computer hard-locked while CloneCD was burning. I figured that had to do with it. Both CD-ROMs are recongized by the BIOS and the Secondary IDE contrller (i.e. in Windows I see the modes they are using), yet the CD-ROMs themselves have a yellow exclamation point next to them. I've tried uninstalling and then scanning for hardware changes. I've tried uninstalling and rebooting and I've even tried just updating the driver, all with no success. What should I do? I can just reinstall Win2k...

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 7:31 am

Yeah, I've had similar "fun" like that too but slightly different in Win98SE and in my case it wasn't related to cd driver problems but something else conflicting (SB Live card issue I believe) solved by moving it to another PCI slot. It was causing the cd-roms drivers to not load due to a conflict.
When both cd-roms are physically connected and you're seeing the yellow !s, have you tryed deleting both devices from hardware manager first, then shut it down, unplug both devices and re-boot? You then shouldn't see either device there at all.
Next, connect one at a time and let windows detect it upon booting and install drivers. I'd think that should fix it.
If not and you have the SB live card too, try removing it from its slot just to see if that might cure it, just a WAG.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 8:00 am

Iwould definately try what Evil suggests - pull both CD drives, boot, make sure they're gone from the device manager, shut down and connect ONE drive only and see if it detects properly.

You sure you're not getting a resource conflict with the secondary IDE port?

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 3:31 pm

Well for one I haven't changed anything. Nothing! I uninstalled CloneCD and it still isn't working. No resource conflicts with the Secondary IDE controller. I'll try one by one.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Dec 10, 2001 7:54 pm

I once (not long ago) had major problems in Win98 simply by unplugging a USB mouse to test a screensaver problem I was having with a particular and often problematic (but very cool) screensaver, nothing else changed. Fixing it was no easy thing either.
Gotta luv Windows stuff

d_b · Post by **d_b** » Wed Dec 12, 2001 5:23 am

I know nothing of win2000. I had the same problem as you after I installed a program in XP(don't remember what program tho). I was pulling my hair out trying to figure what was wrong. CDrom whould show in the boot screen but not in xp. Booted to 98 and the cd worked, booted to XP and nothing. Finally I used XP's nice little feature, system restore and everything was fine. Go Figure. My point is, does 2000 have a system restore such as XP?

good luck

dan

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Wed Dec 12, 2001 6:28 am

2000 doesn't but it doesn't matter anymore considering I wiped Win2k off my drive and put Win XP back on, I only put 2000 because I didn't have access to pc Anywhere and I need pc Anywhere.

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