Dvd-rom drive & cd-rw drive are not responding....?

[SinisterX]

Last night, I realised my dvd-rom drive and my cd-rw drive are not reading any cd's. I opened device manager and I have a yellow exclamation mark on both drives. Power lights go on, when I run POST, but, they just won't read any cd's? I opened the computer case and the IDE ribbon cable in properly in place. I am running WIndows XP Home and I have an Intel 2.0 ghz processor. What could be the problem?

Thanks,
Omar

 

[ANFPS26]

Remove both of them from Device Manager and re-start. Windows should reinstall them.

Jim

 

[hughk]

if you had a cwriter program tha you uninstaled that is a common couse for your problem, look up on the microsoft knowlagebase whic lne to delete in the reg. anmd everything should be ok
hugh

 

[bcastner]

See this first:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

This site has some good advice:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

And ForceAspi has been very useful to me in the past:

http://aspi.radified.com/