My cdrom and burner went poof...

Falstaff · May 13, 2003, 06:26 AM

In another one of my bone headed plays, I had to pull and game cd from cdrom, because it wasn't loading properly. I reset my machine and 'poof' my cdrom wasnt working...I would put the cd back in but suddenly I couldn't get the cdrom to work...the drivers are okay, the bios is good in the mobo..hmmm..I tried the elder geek fix and edited the regsitry...no go...
I reinstalled the driver, but still, the device manager says the cdrom is working properly but the cdrom and burner wont recognise the cd's whether it is music or a game... whats a doofus to do..?
I am running xp home edition and nothing is overclocked in my machine...
can anyone help me...

PangingJr · May 13, 2003, 07:15 AM

have you tryed to "uninstall" the drive in "device manager"? give that a try.
reboot after that, let windows reset related registries.

Dom · May 13, 2003, 07:35 AM

Who's the manufacturer of the drive?

scobywhru · May 13, 2003, 08:52 AM

I know when I had to remove a CD from one of my drives it didn't set the CD reading mechanism in the right place and so it wouldn't work and I had to do something to it to get it to work again, I don't remeber, but I could have taken it apart to fix it... wish I could help you more but that was a long time ago

scobywhru · May 13, 2003, 08:54 AM

Actually now that I have sat and thought about it, I did have to take the cover off and put the read head and mechanism in the position where it should go when a CD was in it, then assembled it again and it read CDs after that until I had to manually eject a CD again

tek · May 13, 2003, 01:23 PM

Open up your computer (make sure you unplug shit first) and disconnect all the cables from that cdrom and connect them, and push them in hard.. because that sh1t is hard to push in.... then bo0t up your comp and I'm pretty sure it'll work.

merry · May 13, 2003, 01:53 PM

Any chance with the utils that come with Nero? (DriveSpeed, CDSpeed or whatever)

Falstaff · May 13, 2003, 02:03 PM

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tek- Open up your computer (make sure you unplug shit first) and disconnect all the cables from that cdrom and connect them, and push them in hard.. because that sh1t is hard to push in.... then bo0t up your comp and I'm pretty sure it'll work.

this sounds promising, I have IDE bus mastering with my via chip, maybe this will re-register my irq?

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scobywhru-- I know when I had to remove a CD from one of my drives it didn't set the CD reading mechanism in the right place and so it wouldn't work and I had to do something to it to get it to work again, I don't remeber, but I could have taken it apart to fix it... wish I could help you more but that was a long time ago
scobywhru- Actually now that I have sat and thought about it, I did have to take the cover off and put the read head and mechanism in the position where it should go when a CD was in it, then assembled it again and it read CDs after that until I had to manually eject a CD again

ahhhhg...sounds complicated...I will have to give this some thought...it is possible to manually eject with the tiny hole inthe face plate..hmmmm...

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Dom Who's the manufacturer of the drive?

I know it's a mitsumi, but the bios and the OS call it a g6d....odd, huh..

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panging have you tryed to "uninstall" the drive in "device manager"? give that a try.
reboot after that, let windows reset related registries.

yep, this is the wierd part, I uninstalled both of them and rebooted, the os found drivers and they spun up just once, then refused to work...sniff....
I am gonna try disconnected the cdrom, I will look on the back and see the exact specs and try to manually reinstall the cdrom....what a pain, all this happend after I installed SPK1.

I can't reinstall the OS, unless I set my first boot device to Cdrom I suppose...this is a pain!
Thanx for all your help guys.....any other ideas?
(don't have enough money for XP professional...ha ha)

tek · May 14, 2003, 03:07 AM

Want XP Professional.. PM me (hope mods/admins dont see this

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Falstaff · May 14, 2003, 03:19 AM

I am running roxio 5, didn't seem to make a diffrence because I couldn't get the bloody cdrom to run as master...sheesh..I am going to swap the burner and cdrom as master and slave...the 2 ide channel is okay as far as I know...gonna take some work..

merry · May 14, 2003, 07:36 AM

I didn't understand at first if you had one or two devices. Try them one at a time, i.e. totally disconect the CD-ROM (both IDE and PS cables) and see if the writer works, then vice-versa.

BWX · May 14, 2003, 07:56 AM

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Originally posted by fallang_jeff
In another one of my bone headed plays, I had to pull and game cd from cdrom, because it wasn't loading properly. I reset my machine and 'poof' my cdrom wasnt working...I would put the cd back in but suddenly I couldn't get the cdrom to work...the drivers are okay, the bios is good in the mobo..hmmm..I tried the elder geek fix and edited the regsitry...no go...
I reinstalled the driver, but still, the device manager says the cdrom is working properly but the cdrom and burner wont recognise the cd's whether it is music or a game... whats a doofus to do..?
I am running xp home edition and nothing is overclocked in my machine...
can anyone help me...

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...threadid=13944
52 x 24 x 52 I have one Identical to it- It's awsome- can burn a disk in 2 min, 11 sec- 800mb

I'll sell you a bran new one that I've been (half assed) trying to sell for a few months. I'll give you a deal, and test it out if you want me too. At this point I just want to sell it- even I don't make any money on it.

Falstaff · May 14, 2003, 01:23 PM

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BWX232 quote:-
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthr...&threadid=13944
52 x 24 x 52 I have one Identical to it- It's awsome- can burn a disk in 2 min, 11 sec- 800mb
I'll sell you a bran new one that I've been (half assed) trying to sell for a few months. I'll give you a deal, and test it out if you want me too. At this point I just want to sell it- even I don't make any money on it.

I might be in the market if my durn photoshop projects were completed. I am rather embarrased to say that my burner looks good, but my Cdrom is actually not a mitsumi, I put that in my sons machine, i actually have a TOP GLORY ELECTRONICS-G621D-52X. I remember buying it last year at under the label Hival, it has served me faithfully up till now...I wonder if I messed it up when I pulled the ejected the CD after I interrupted the game loading...sniff..

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merry - I didn't understand at first if you had one or two devices. Try them one at a time, i.e. totally disconect the CD-ROM (both IDE and PS cables) and see if the writer works, then vice-versa.

I am gonna crack the case again...use the burner for everything, its a yamaha 2100e, should work for my needs, I wonder if I assigned to many IRQ's manually and that started the whole business. I am using the Hyperion 4 in 1's for my Via chipset on my anemic mobo, ha ha..You can monkey with the bios and get lots of stuff working for you, but I let the OS decide where the IRQ's should go this time and see, get back to you later...thanx...

mike2h · May 14, 2003, 11:17 PM

does the cd drive spin up when you put a cd in? if it does not. try putting it on the other ide channell(&check power). if this does not work(i assume your burner is on that channel ), shitcan it, & use your burner or buy a dvd rom drive. they tend to be built a little better & actually read better.

Falstaff · May 15, 2003, 12:14 AM

and the os recoginizes it correctly too, gonna get that dvd driver for sure...a hard lesson to learn, my son is watching me too, thinks I am gonna pull his old unit out...I mean really.....crap he saw me....going to best buy,

mike2h · May 15, 2003, 12:22 AM

if you have a office depot, go there. the io/magic 16x with 512 cache is $10 cheaper & it is a good drive.

Falstaff · May 15, 2003, 01:33 AM

this has gotta be a software problem...I put a hard drive on the 2 ide channel and guess what, it works! but both cdrom and burner still don't...I can't figure it out...is it a registry hack I gotta do? system restore didn't bring it back either...sheesh..

Falstaff · May 15, 2003, 05:30 AM

I carefully pulled the beast apart, replaced the cards and pushed the button....walla.....everything works, I cannot figure it out.....I wish I could take credit for this one....but it works...

May 13, 2003, 06:26 AM	#1
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	My cdrom and burner went poof... In another one of my bone headed plays, I had to pull and game cd from cdrom, because it wasn't loading properly. I reset my machine and 'poof' my cdrom wasnt working...I would put the cd back in but suddenly I couldn't get the cdrom to work...the drivers are okay, the bios is good in the mobo..hmmm..I tried the elder geek fix and edited the regsitry...no go... I reinstalled the driver, but still, the device manager says the cdrom is working properly but the cdrom and burner wont recognise the cd's whether it is music or a game... whats a doofus to do..? I am running xp home edition and nothing is overclocked in my machine... can anyone help me... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

May 13, 2003, 08:52 AM	#4
scobywhru DriverHeaven Senile Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Penthouse Basement Posts: 619 Rep Power: 0	I know when I had to remove a CD from one of my drives it didn't set the CD reading mechanism in the right place and so it wouldn't work and I had to do something to it to get it to work again, I don't remeber, but I could have taken it apart to fix it... wish I could help you more but that was a long time ago __________________

May 13, 2003, 08:54 AM	#5
scobywhru DriverHeaven Senile Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Penthouse Basement Posts: 619 Rep Power: 0	Actually now that I have sat and thought about it, I did have to take the cover off and put the read head and mechanism in the position where it should go when a CD was in it, then assembled it again and it read CDs after that until I had to manually eject a CD again __________________

May 13, 2003, 01:23 PM	#6
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Open up your computer (make sure you unplug shit first) and disconnect all the cables from that cdrom and connect them, and push them in hard.. because that sh1t is hard to push in.... then bo0t up your comp and I'm pretty sure it'll work. __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]

May 13, 2003, 01:53 PM	#7
merry gargouille Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 962 Rep Power: 0	Any chance with the utils that come with Nero? (DriveSpeed, CDSpeed or whatever) __________________ There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. ~~Leonard Cohen

May 13, 2003, 07:15 AM	#2
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	have you tryed to "uninstall" the drive in "device manager"? give that a try. reboot after that, let windows reset related registries.

May 13, 2003, 07:35 AM	#3
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Who's the manufacturer of the drive?

May 14, 2003, 03:07 AM	#9
tek DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Boston, US Posts: 2,103 Rep Power: 0	Want XP Professional.. PM me (hope mods/admins dont see this ) __________________ [COLOR=White][/COLOR]

May 14, 2003, 03:19 AM	Thread Starter #10
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	sorry merry I am running roxio 5, didn't seem to make a diffrence because I couldn't get the bloody cdrom to run as master...sheesh..I am going to swap the burner and cdrom as master and slave...the 2 ide channel is okay as far as I know...gonna take some work.. __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

May 14, 2003, 07:36 AM	#11
merry gargouille Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 962 Rep Power: 0	I didn't understand at first if you had one or two devices. Try them one at a time, i.e. totally disconect the CD-ROM (both IDE and PS cables) and see if the writer works, then vice-versa. __________________ There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. ~~Leonard Cohen

May 14, 2003, 11:17 PM	#14
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	does the cd drive spin up when you put a cd in? if it does not. try putting it on the other ide channell(&check power). if this does not work(i assume your burner is on that channel ), shitcan it, & use your burner or buy a dvd rom drive. they tend to be built a little better & actually read better. __________________

May 15, 2003, 12:14 AM	Thread Starter #15
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	oh yeh it spins up and the os recoginizes it correctly too, gonna get that dvd driver for sure...a hard lesson to learn, my son is watching me too, thinks I am gonna pull his old unit out...I mean really.....crap he saw me....going to best buy, __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

May 15, 2003, 12:22 AM	#16
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	if you have a office depot, go there. the io/magic 16x with 512 cache is $10 cheaper & it is a good drive. __________________

May 15, 2003, 01:33 AM	Thread Starter #17
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	crap crap crap this has gotta be a software problem...I put a hard drive on the 2 ide channel and guess what, it works! but both cdrom and burner still don't...I can't figure it out...is it a registry hack I gotta do? system restore didn't bring it back either...sheesh.. __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

May 15, 2003, 05:30 AM	Thread Starter #18
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	Ta da ! I carefully pulled the beast apart, replaced the cards and pushed the button....walla.....everything works, I cannot figure it out.....I wish I could take credit for this one....but it works... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."