I recently built a new computer running WinXP x64 Pro. It has a EVGA nForce 590 SLI AMD2 Mainboard. I am running Windows XP x64 Professional SP2 – it is fully up-to-date via Windows Update.
After installing the OS on a older IDE CD ROM and booting into windows, the IDE CD Rom was no longer recognized. I switched to a USB Combo Drive (COMBO IDE5232CO USB Device from DYNEX Model #: DX-ECOD1). From there I was able to install the nVidia Mainboard drivers. Once the Mainboard drivers were installed, no CD Rom device I attempted to install on the system worked. I have an array of older IDE drives of varying abilities (plain old CDROM, CD-RW, DVD-R), the USB DVD-R mentioned above, and I purchased a new rebranded Toshiba Samsung DVD-RW (under the name Mad Dog Megastore – TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D).
After browsing some posts here on Techrepublic. I decided I would try to reinstall the chipset drivers for the motherboard. I removed the drivers for the onboard NVIDIA NForce NEC’s, the NVIDIA Network Bus Enumerator, and the NVIDIA nForce System Management Driver. No luck.
I then removed all the drivers for the Primary, Secondary, and Dual Channel PCI IDE Controllers. This seemed to actually change something – although it did not solve my issue. I had, for some reason, 4 driver entries for each type of IDE controller. When I removed all over them and rebooted, only a single entry appeared for each Controller. However, During the course of reinstalling these controllers and reinstalling the Chipset, 3 new redundant entries have appeared under the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers – ‘NVIDIA nForce 590/570/550 Serial ATA Controller’ – these were not present before, and certainly not three of them. (I also am not sure after which step these appeared, because I did not thoroughly check :/ )
Every single CDrom/DVDrom/CDRW/DVDRW I attempt to install shows up with a Yellow Exclamation point and the Device Status of “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”
They all also show up as the same driver, Microsoft Driver 5.2.3790.1830 (dated 10/1/2002)
One other thing I would note – there is one Unknown Device running on the system as well – however, I am told that this has something to do with a special feature on the motherboard that only works with Windows Media Center – or some such, and should register as Unknown on other systems.
Any of these CD-roms I have attempted to install have been the only IDE device (other then the USB drive). I only have 1 HD and it is SATA 3.0Gb/s. I do have other IDE HD’s but have not attempted to install one to see whether they would work or not.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(Just to be thorough, 2 of the other drives I attempt to use but were not listed above are the LG CRD 8480C Internal 48x CD-ROM Drive, and the Hitachi GD-5000 DVD-ROM/DVD-RAM Drive… there were a couple others, but these 2 just happened to be sitting next to my desk at the time I am writing this)