dvd corrupt firmware?

[dpick]

Recently, I updated the firmware of my A05 Pioneer so it would rip at full speed. It seemed to go okay. I ripped a couple of DVD's with no problems. However, once I rebooted Windows is not assigning a drive number to the drive. I get an error "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)." I've disabled/enabled--no help. I've uninstalled/reinstalled the DVD drive (through device manager), and it didn't work either. The drive shows up fine in the bios. I'm not sure I have a firmware problem, but this is the only thing I've done to the DVD lately.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

My system:
3.0 P4
Intel 865 PerLL MB
I gig crucial ram
5900 xfx video card

 

[Uncle Bob]

When you uninstalled/reinstalled - did you reboot after the uninstall? did windows detect the drive as new hardware?

how is the A05 connected? is there an on-board RAID controller and is the A05 connected to this?

 

[dpick]

Thanks for replying, Uncle Bob.

Yes, I rebooted and windows detected the Pioneer A05 drive and said, "your hardware is installed and ready to use." However, I still had the same error (41). I have no raid configuration, and connect the DVD through IDE.

I tried to reflash the firmware. "No device detected." All this seems to say that it's in the hardware/firmware. I had no errors when I flashed the firmware, and the drive worked until rebooting.

 

[dpick]

To follow up. I fixed it. I reinstalled an image I made and for whatever reason it cured the problem. Got to love hard drive imaging software.