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by chester peterson

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Hi all,
My cd rom and cd burner do not work any more. The PC was recently dropped and now I have White exclamation marks in devoce manager.
What does this mean?

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by thamer

If you find an X through a device’s icon it means the device has been disabled. A circled exclamation point through the device’s icon means the device has a problem. The type of problem will be displayed in the properties dialog box for those devices (Right-click the device and select properties). What is the error code?

by drb63

According to MS, there isn't a white exclamation. You may be seeing a blue exclamation point with white backgound. Or you may have damaged the LCD when the notebook was dropped. Other than that, the exclamation point is telling you that the device is in a problem state or that the Use Automatic Settings feature is not selected for the device and that the resource was manually selected. Note that this does not indicate a problem or disabled state.

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