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Problems With CD Drives

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by jeffreymgeorge

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I have had an ongoing problem with the two CD drives on an HP Pavilion I am using. They only seem to read a disc's contents the first time a disc is inserted, and do not refresh with subsequent discs. Sometimes the only way to get the drives to read a new disc is to reboot the system. Is there a solution for this? The operating system is Windows XP SP 2.

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by mjd420nova

This sounds familiar. I've seen this fault before and it was an IDE controller that was at fault but that was when the controller was on a seperate board and not part of the system board as it is now days.

by gary56789

to go into Device Manager and uninstall the CD drivers, then reboot to reinstall them.

Considering the hardware IDE possibility, why not (if the above doesn't work) plug one of the CD's into your primary IDE ribbon cable (properly configured) and test for a while.
If it works there, then the purchase of a PCI IDE controller card would seem to be in order.

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