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CD Rom Isn't being recognized

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by snottytishu

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Hi,

I have not added anything or deleted anything to the computer so this is driving me crazy. I can not get my cd rom drives, I have 2, to play. Both the D and E drives, no matter what I do, will not play a music CD. Even when I go to My Computer and click on the drive, it will, with drive D, ask me to insert a CD, and with drive E, lock up for about 7 minutes, before shutting down.
I have to burn 40 CD's for an upcoming birthday party, the cd's are going inside the goodie bags, and I don't know what i'll do if I can't fix this.
Help please.

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by keith hailey

It's a hardware conflict. Each drive has it's own controller, and if you don't set them up right, they both respond to all commands from the ATA bus. That's why his slave is going away into the twilight zone like he said.

by cruzin101

It's most likely driver conflicts. I had the same thing happen when I installed a camera driver. There was also a Vista hardware driver update (on MS's site) that caused the same thing. In both cases, I simply did a system restore to the previous day to resolve the issue. The drivers weren't a "must have" item.

by keith hailey

need to know if it's 40 or 80 conductor cable. (yeah, start counting the little buggers) But another way to tell is that "most" 40 pin cables are not color coded, and "ALL" 80 pin cables are color coded.
If you it's 40 pin, set the jumper on the drive at the end connector(usually black, device 0) to master and the other (usually grey connector)to slave. *see note below

The 80 pin is a "cable select" cable. If you have one of these, set jumpers on both of the drives to "CS"

*Now, sometimes there are problems due to using drives from different manufacturers. Some drives will need the "Slave present" jumper installed. If the above doesn't work, you may just have to resort to the trial and error method.

by keith hailey

Go into your Bios set up and check to make sure that IDE 0 and IDE 1 are set properly.

IDE 0 devices are generaly your hard drives
IDE 1 devices are generally your CDRoms.

if they are set to Automatic, it takes longer to boot up due to searching.
On most current systems, you can select the channel and hit enter and it will search for the device and select CDRom. If not, scroll through and select it for both devices.

by cruzin101

Hi,
What type of computer and operating system do you have? When this this problem begin? you may want to try a system restore to a day before the onset of this problem.

by Former member

Yellow or red marks next to them. If there are (or not) just right click on the drives and select "delete", re-boot your computer, when back on-line you will/should see "found new hardware". Your cd/dvd drives should now work. If not try this:
http://www.regcure.com/lp/11/?uid=9wbky
It is a registry cleaner (you will have to purchase the full version), i have this on my systems and i have no problems (touch wood), this should solve the issue that you are having. Your system might have duplicate registry entry applications and if so this might be what is causing your system to act like this. Hope this works for you.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

by Former member

WARNING!!!!. Be careful when you do any changes in the registry, you can make your computer unstable or unusable.

Restoring Access to CD ROMs

If after you remove CD Burning software, you can no longer access your CD ROM's,
the following registry keys need to be deleted:
Locate and delete the "UpperFilters and LowerFilters" values under the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

When finished re-boot your computer and then try again with your cd-rom.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

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