New computer-athalon 1.4Ghz, 512 Mb RAM. 46 Gb WD HD, partitioned. Pacific Digital CDRW, Creative Labs 52x CD.Win 98 OS. Every time I start my machine or restart, the CD drives stop working. When I go into device manager, the secondary bus IDE controller has that yellow exclamation point, the CDRW has a red x on it, and the CDROM is GONE. I manually update the controller driver with the SAME DRIVER, and I have to REMOVE the CD controller, and reinstall the same driver again. If I don’t remove the CD controller, but just update it, it restores the CDRW, but it doesn’t recognize the CDROM as being on the machine. How do I get Windows Device Manager to save these settings so I don’t have to keep reinstalling them? The CD controller is Sony Proprietary CD Controller, provided by Microsoft, the Secondary Bus IDE controller is provided by VIA technologies.
I’m also getting A LOT of fatal blue screens.
