Help - won't recognise CD/DVD ROM

Curio · 19 May 2007 at 20:20

So today I turned my PC on and it won't recognise my CDR-W or DVD-ROM drives. They show up correctly in device manager, but with the yellow exclamation marks on them. I've tried uninstalling them and letting it find them again, tried re-installing chipset drivers, different chipset drivers - and the BIOS also shows them to be present. Why won't Windows recognise them all of a sudden :confused:

EDIT: WinXP pro, Lite-On DVD-ROM and Samsung CDR-W. nForce Ultra AM2 mobo. No SATA.

jbloggs · 19 May 2007 at 21:16

If you have uninstall/re-installed both Optical devices under DVD/CD-Rom Drives and als the IDE channel that they are installed on, and that does not cure it, sometimes this This Registry fix can sort it.

bledd · 19 May 2007 at 22:26

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17633373&highlight=exclamation+mark

that will sort it out!

Curio · 19 May 2007 at 22:58

bledd. said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17633373&highlight=exclamation+mark

that will sort it out!

Whoa - that, like, totally worked! :cool:

Only I didn't have the upperfilter thingy, just the lowerfilter :confused:

Anyway......what does that fix actually do.....and what causes the problem?

Thanks!

bledd · 19 May 2007 at 23:02

limewire, itunes, certain disc writing software

its a weird problem that is still in Vista too!

only come across it twice