Having a little bit of bother with the PC.

Windows won't recognise both my CD-RW and DVD-RW drives.

Both drives are physically installed and have been there for ages with no problems. Both drives are recognised in the BIOS so they are configured correctly with regards to the IDE chain.

In the windows hardware list, both drives are listed under the CD-Rom part, but they are highlighted with a yellow triangle and a black exclamation mark and windows says this about each one:

Never had this before. I have tried disabling and enabling, uninstalling and reinstalling and a new hardware sweep after a reset, but nothing.

Nothing is showing up as conflicting at all and no new hardware has been added and nothing removed recently that would cause this problem


Anyone any idea please let me know

 

download and install latest manufacturer drivers for both devices.

 

That didn't work Dave

However, I have now cured it - Had to edit the registry and remove some filters

 

seen this before, I cannot remmber, but I think its a rebuild to fix it.

somthing to do with drivers and reg entrys

 

JohnnyB

I thought you was an IT god? It took 2 mins to remove 4 lines in the registry to fix it

 

Matt J

Who gives a fuck, we're all doomed in 2008 anyway

 

Oi you cunt

I don't know whats going on, but 4 new admin have been introduced, waiting on some word from them