My Sony DRU-500AX and XP in Divorce Court!!!

[Luuve]

I don't know what happen to their marriage, but they were kinda love at first sight, been a great mirrage for almost 2 months (?) and gave birth to around over a dozen perfect DVDs, and few dozens VCDs, and couple CDs with no sight of abusing to each other.

Last night, she even gave birth to 3 perfect VCDs and 1 CD. But this morning when I try to burn another CD then I have found out their marriage is in trouble. Checked with the Devices Manager and I see they have the yellow "!" and Windows explains that it can't load the driver, the driver can be corrupted and need to be replaced etc..

I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers *but* it keeps reinstall the same drivers with the YELLOW "!". I tried from Safe Mode, renamed the drivers by adding "underscore" before filenames, but no help.

To make sure their sex life isn't the main problem for the divorce, I boot Win XP from CD-ROM and the DVD worked great as normal, CMOS sees it just fine etc..

Does anyone here have any ****** to save the marriage?

TIA.

[roadworker]

Uninstal your busmaster drivers and reboot......windows automaticly reinstals them....this often solves the problem of a bad recognised drive....

[Luuve]

Originally posted by roadworker
Uninstal your busmaster drivers and reboot......windows automaticly reinstals them....this often solves the problem of a bad recognised drive....

I will give it a try right away, and will report the result later.

Thanks.

[Luuve]

I have tried it twice but not enough doze to clear the YOLLOW ! yet.

1) I deleted the Bus Master driver without the DRU-500AX driver uninstalled, and it didn't work.

2) I deleted *both* Bus Master & DRU-500AX drivers and it didn't work either.

Also, I don't know it's normal or not *but* the system reboot right after I uninstalled the Bus Master driver without asking me to reboot or anything.

[roadworker]

Originally posted by Luuve
I Also, I don't know it's normal or not *but* the system reboot right after I uninstalled the Bus Master driver without asking me to reboot or anything.

I have to do this manually.....

[Luuve]

Originally posted by roadworker
I have to do this manually.....

I guess you mean unpluf the IDE cable(s) and I will give it a try. The Devices Manager shows

1) Primary IDE channel
2) Secondary IDE Channel
3) VIA Bus Master IDE Channel.

I will unpluf the cable of DVD drive first see if it works, then unplug the hard drives (the primary has two 100G hard drives) and will let you know the good news.

Thanks.

[Luuve]

I unplugged the cable of DVD burner and reboot, and for some reason Win XP still installed the Yellow ! "AVX CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CDRom device" without the DRU-500A driver.

connected the cable back, reboot and still get the Yellow !

[woody]

Luuve..do you have Alcohol software installed?Try removing it to see if you writer is recognized.The virtual device driver causes problems in some installations.If not that,could be a recent software you installed.

The instructions Roadworker gave you should have worked.So it must be something more.

[woody]

Take a look here to see if this applies too bud!
http://www.cdrbase.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=547

[Luuve]

Originally posted by woody
Luuve..do you have Alcohol software installed?Try removing it to see if you writer is recognized.The virtual device driver causes problems in some installations.If not that,could be a recent software you installed.

The instructions Roadworker gave you should have worked.So it must be something more.

I had had one older version of Alcohol installed and it worked fine for few weeks (never got it to work on the old Win98 system), then it reported the trial time is over, so I upgraded to current latest version with newer key etc. 1-2 days before the problem started. I then uninstalled Alcohol before posting the first message here.

Thanks for the info.

[Luuve]

Originally posted by woody
Take a look here to see if this applies too bud!
http://www.cdrbase.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=547

I am reading the article above now, and just want to let you know the error code I get is "code 39"
____________________________________________
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.
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Also, the latest program I installed on the system was SONAR 2 (Cakewalk's bigger cousin). My daughter wants to compose some music so she asked me to install the old CakeWalk program on newer system (I built 2 new faster systems), and I told her that Sonar may not work with the built-in Audio, but I installed it on my system to make sure I was right (I was right).

I will uninstall Sonar see if it will helps, and will continue to read (and think) the article more.

Thanks.

[Luuve]

Hmmmm... before I uninstall the Sonar (doesn't seem to have anything to do with the DVD problem) I checked for the Alcohol and it's still here (I remember I already uninstalled it) .. or my old eyes did a trick on me again and I uninstalled something else instead.

But this time the drunkard master will be gone for the test

[roadworker]

Luuve,there are 2 ways that I know(there are probably a lot more...)to fix a bad Alcohol uninstall.....
Reinstal the latest trial version over the old,and uninstall,or go to device manager-->SCSI and RAID controllers and remove the Alcohol SCSI driver and reboot,most likely the virtual drive is gone...

[Luuve]

Originally posted by roadworker
Luuve,there are 2 ways that I know(there are probably a lot more...)to fix a bad Alcohol uninstall.....
Reinstal the latest trial version over the old,and uninstall,or go to device manager-->SCSI and RAID controllers and remove the Alcohol SCSI driver and reboot,most likely the virtual drive is gone...

I have uninstalled the Alcohol's SCSI controller early today (can't find the RAID driver). Right now the system has only USB and IDE controller.

It seems like I may have to reinstall the whole system again. Also, my system doesn't have much stuffs but programs for CD/DVD like.

Nero, VCDGear, and NTI were the ones I installed first (over a month ago), then later ISOBuster, VCDGear, Alcohol, TMPGenc, than later Ulead DVD MovieFactory2, Ulead Workshop, DVDMaestro, Sonic DVD Scenarist (only played with DVD Factory2 a little, can't handle the other 3 yet).

Later I installed TMPGenc DVD Author, then current latest version of Alcohol because the trial version expired. Those are programs relates to CD/DVD and 3-4 other programs.

Hmmmm.. the nite before DRU-500ax acted up I upgraded some new drivers from microsoft site (I wonder if this the main reason which causes the problem?).

[Luuve]

I am uninstalling all programs to ready to reinstall WinXP again. Besides DRU-500AX problem, I also having problem installing HP PhotoSmart 7350 printer which has spreaded to other USB ports causing WinXP to reboot itself if some (not all) USB devices plug to system, or unplug (if already plugged).

Since I don't have lot of programs installed so it isn't so bad (but still pain in the donkey).

And I would like to thanks to everyone trying to help, and I will be back with a cleaner WinXP in few days (I hope no other problem).