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Lyn - 27 Oct 2003 19:50 GMT

Hi;
I hope someone can help me with this.
My CD-burner vanished.
Does anyone know what type of conflict could have made the drive
vanish?

I have a LG CD-drive and a LG DVD-drive and I did have a CD burner
drive...but..alas..no more. Although I do see it physically, so it
must be there.. right!
What happened to it?

I am running Win98SE on Pent4.
Question is..where do I get drivers for it? Does windows have the
drivers? I think the drive may be generic, although it came with LG
Adaptec recording software but I don't think drivers are on that CD.
Should I- disconnect it - reboot - let windows find the drive -
reinstall drivers.
Thanks for any advice..
Lyn

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glee - 27 Oct 2003 21:48 GMT

How are the drives jumpered and cabled? Which drives are on the primary and which on the secondary controllers?

Windows provides drivers for the CD drives....none need to be manually installed.

Look in Device Manager....are all the CD and DVD drives listed in the CDROM category?
Is there a "splat"....red X or exclamation mark....on the Hard disk controllers category?

Reboot to SAFE MODE, enter Device Manager, expand the CDROM category and remove everything there.
Click OK, then restart in normal mode and let Windows reinstall the drives silently.

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> Hi;
> I hope someone can help me with this.
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> Thanks for any advice..
> Lyn

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Lynny - 31 Oct 2003 00:41 GMT

>How are the drives jumpered and cabled? Which drives are on the primary =
>and which on the secondary controllers?
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>> Thanks for any advice..
>> Lyn

Hi again;
I have had this CD-burned on this comp. running fine for well over a
year, and I should also ad that I never recently added new Software
or Hardware.

The CD & DVD drive are listed in Device manager.
The only splats I have are in on the IRQ in the ECP resouses, and on
the task bar over the 'Adaptec Direct CD Wizard -No supported
CD-R/CD-RW Drive' icon. The Hard Disk Controllers have no splat.

I thought I should also add that I just noticed in Device Manager: a
yellow exclamation mark beside ECP Printer Port.
When I go to>properties>resourses:
there is a Interrupt Request 07 conflict>
IRQ 07 is used by the following:

ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
Standard Universal PCI to USB Host Controller

However when I go to manually reset, I only get a choice of 5 or 7.
Both of which have the same conflicts. All of my other IRQs are used,
so can I share with something else? Does this have to do with the
CD-Burner drive problem?

The comp. will only install the CD-Rom drive silently.
Still no CD-Burner.

Thnx........Lyn

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