CDROM driver removed? 3

[TonyH687]

Cant access CDROM-sometihng has removed the driver.A/V prog finds nothing. Cant load driver frm cd of course.
How can I fix this? Startup screen says something about
Removed by windows setup ---IDCD0000:l Frustrating.. thanks for any info , Ive searched till Im tired
TOnyH

 

[Jontmke]

There really isn't a "driver" for CD players. It is built in to Windows. Does it show up in My Computer? How about device manager? Sometimes the IDE cable on a CD player wiggles loose. Make sure it is connected well on the player and the motherboard.

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[ski]

Also, check the power cable to the drive, and try a different power cable.

If nothing works, then the drive may be bad.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Does any one else have access to the PC...who may have installed something.....(i'll leave it at that for now).

When you say this
Cant access CDROM-sometihng has removed the driver

When did this happen.....? How long ago?

TT4U

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[TonyH687]

Happened Tues nite, worked 3hrs on it. Is there a new virus out that Norton cant see? I learned to run regedit/restore earlier today, backed upa couple of days and now it works, but not totally correct. I should've said CDRW instead of cdrom. I can now move files to cdrws but hangs up when I try to format a new cdrw disk.
Also when it hangs trying that, When i try to shutdown>box pops up and says 'START /WSETUP.EXE -s -sms is not responding and do I want to wait, shutdown or cancel. I wonder is that a legitimite win98se file or is it some kind of new trojan or something. Ran Norton in safemode, still finds nothing. I'll check cables / conectors too. thanks for your input

 

[TekTippy4U]

The scanreg /restore is the thing I "was" going to tell you to do....:>).....anyway

What's your config...?
Primary/Secondary....Master/Slave?...USB...?

TT4U

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[TonyH687]

Ok I have returned from the trojan hell, after 2 days of reloading, formatting and burning eyes. I had been a victim ofa trojan attack, since the weekly update of virus definitions from Norton came down Wednesday>THEN my AV prog found the problem with things that dont work like cd players.
I guess the evil virus writers are also aware of which day the
a/v programs update their files. Musta been on the wrong website that nite. My first major attack tho in 4yrs.
Thanks for all who assisted>the cd player was just the first problem that came to light ...BTW==something Norton called "blackbox" class of trojan, whatever that is, affects .exe files. IM BACK in operation now tho

 

[TekTippy4U]

TT4U

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