 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Windows Forum / Windows XP / Hardware / March 2004E-Machine Conflict
I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC. Everything was working alright until I applied all the Windows Update. After I restarted my computer, my CD/R and DVD drives stopped working. My device manager says that there are driver conflicts and and disabled these drives. I am almsot certain that Windows Update applied a patch that caused this conflict although I do not know which patch caused it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated Jason Chohan Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives, remove them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with the correct drivers. | I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC. Everything | was working alright until I applied all the Windows [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] | | Jason Chohan > Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives, remove > them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with the > correct drivers. Oh no they won't, Jimmy! You're forgetting that the system under discussion is an eMachines - the hardware equivalent of AOHELL. Nothing is straightforward where eMachines are concerned! Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend? | > Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives, remove | > them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] | is an eMachines - the hardware equivalent of AOHELL. Nothing is | straightforward where eMachines are concerned! > Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend? I apologise, Jim, I meant no disrespect (I respect you greatly). I've no idea. All I meant was that emachines are SOBs when it comes to things like that. Jimmy is a SUV is a joke, no offense was taken. Most mfg'rs use some off the shelf components, including motherboards. But they make changes to the BIOS as well as using cheapest available parts. Some make actual changes to the hardware. I have the first Windows PC that I bought, a HP 6465 433 Celeron that uses an ASUS MEVBM mobo. I was going to use the mobo manual to set the FSB to 100 and reset the CPU 500 MHz. But HP had used some flush cutting nippers to cut the header pins so the jumpers did not exist. Newer mobo now generally use software (BIOS) to control such things. If you have an eMachine and the mobo was a commercially available model, you could update the BIOS with a standard BIOS, but then the eMachine software/restore media would not work. | > Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend? | | I apologise, Jim, I meant no disrespect (I respect you greatly). I've no | idea. All I meant was that emachines are SOBs when it comes to things like | that. > I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC. Why?! OK, I know exactly why - price. But did you stop to ask yourself why it was so cheap? Did you go online and find out what others were saying about them?! No you did not. Believe me, this is only the start of your long, arduous, tedious journey with your eMachines. Have fun! |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2009 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.