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CDROM Shows in Biod/Hardware Manager

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Grey

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I bought a generic CDROM/RW from Comp USA and put it on secondary EIDE with the master jumper setting. It shows in Bios on secondary as the master drive.

It says the CDROM drivers are corrupt and I have placed it on both channels and tried making it slave and master. I even reset the driver controller drivers thinking maybe the VIA chipset ones were conflicting somehow. I used hardware wiz to unstall and install it 100 times now.

My previous CD Drive (iomega 650) got fubared because I tried to install an older NERO that was not compatible with windows XP.

Please help, I am at wits end!
 
I tried three different types of cable (two of them just switching between prime and secondary).
 
I would say the drive is defective and for you to bring it back and pick yourself up a 42 dollar (2 dollars more than what you have) Lite-On CDRW/DVD-ROM combo, or just a 23 dollar CDRW from NewEgg. Windows XP is usually picky when it comes to hardware, at least in my experience.

Besides, I've never liked CompUSA's products. They never seem to want to work for me.
 
Doesn't work in DOS, good idea though. I guess it is time to bring this thing back, it didn't work in another PC either.

how the hell did you know how much I spent? Freakyyyyyyy! 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Grey
I bought a generic CDROM/RW from Comp USA and put it on secondary EIDE with the master jumper setting. It shows in Bios on secondary as the master drive.

It says the CDROM drivers are corrupt and I have placed it on both channels and tried making it slave and master. I even reset the driver controller drivers thinking maybe the VIA chipset ones were conflicting somehow. I used hardware wiz to unstall and install it 100 times now.

My previous CD Drive (iomega 650) got fubared because I tried to install an older NERO that was not compatible with windows XP.

Please help, I am at wits end!
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Turns out the Iomega haunted me from the grave. The NERO software got hard locked out of the windows system and took the CD drives with it. I had to delete some registry settings as directed by Nero on their site.

A lot of work, and two CD players later its all good.
 
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