It's like being a leper and finding a community of lepers - and I mean that in a nice way.
I have had this problem for a month or so now and figured I was just screwed, and then here is this forum and there are the people who are having (sorta) the same issue. I have read the suggestions but I'm not sure if it applies to me...so if you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
And since I recently became a minister, I will name a church in your honor!!
Here's the story.
I've got some whacked conflict with my CD DVD drives.
Last year I was burning CDs on my new CD burner which was located in the D drive.That's all I had. Then later, I got a DVD player installed and it used the E drive...and I was using both simultaneously and all was peachy.
Eventually I had a problem and had to reinstall everything - I'd messed with win 2k at 4am and managed to repartition the HD to 0 space so had to get someone in to fix that. They did, all was back to normal.
Down the road I noticed that I was no longer showing the D drive, just the E...but could still burn CDs fine from, what I was assuming was the DVD player - it was supposed to be able to read-record, but anyway, stick it in the E drive, burn CDs, no problem. I also knew the DVD player, the new drive in was better so didn't sweat where the D drive went.
No problems. I didn't use the CD burner program again because I was busy doing other stuff but last month I decided to re-burn a CD I had that was skipping too bad, so fired up Stomp Record Now Max only to get a message that suddenly there is no recordable device on the machine. But yeah, there is, so I figured it was either an outdated program or driver. I tried without any luck to update that. So, I decided to use media player then real player-jukebox, only to get the same message: no recordable devices...but yeah there is. I haven't taken it out, it came with the computer.
I checked every single possible troubleshoting option available and nothing showed up as conflicting. The DVD drive E showed no conflicts. The D drive isn't listed at all to check it, but I did see BOTH drive lights on the tower light up. I shut it down and opened up the tower to check and they're plugged in and connected. The drives work. The buttons opened the drawers, etc. and the E drive still played other CDs, DVDs and software and audio. Just stopped buring.
I go into settings BIOS at start up and see that the Primary - Secondary slave-master are set to auto and have acknowledged ALL 4 drives, A (floppy) C (local) D (CD Rom) and E (DVD) and they're all showing but the two drives D&E are on auto and both set to 2 and 4 on each of them, which tells me they're both there and acknowledged.
At any rate, the machine registers the drives, but only the E - DVD player is showing in the control panel - system. (Well, A & C are, but not D). In there, the E drive is shown but it reads "compact disk" when it used to read DVD something or another. And I can't even access D anymore from any menu because it's not being picked up.
It's like the machine reads it, acknowledges it, the drives both work, but the software doesn't see it, not even windows to list it in device manager or in my computer.
I tinkered around and tried installing drivers it found on installing new hardware but none of them fix it.
Then, somehow in all that, the DVD player drive stopped spitting open the door manually via the button on the tower. I have to actually right click the E drive icon (or open Record Now wizard and click the "eject" button before the thing will open, and worse, when I do push the player button on the tower, I get this popping crap outta my speakers. ???
It only started that tonight so who knows what I did.
Anyway, this is the goal:
WITHOUT having to dump the whole system (because I cannot save it just yet), I want the D drive showing up and usable, the CD burner recognized, BOTH drive working right, all drivers updated, the settings set accurately so there is no more conflict, the drawers to open and close both manually and via the eject buttons, WITHOUT it having to do with the speakers (I have NO CLUE what made that happen)...and a partridge in a pear tree.
If anybody here understands this conflict, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me fix my machine!
Thank you very very very much.
PS: Oh, and I'm gonna need the Mars to human version, a.k.a. the dumba$$ version pretty please! The technical stuff goes clean over my head but I am willing to learn (and can easily) if I know what's what. Thanks!
I have had this problem for a month or so now and figured I was just screwed, and then here is this forum and there are the people who are having (sorta) the same issue. I have read the suggestions but I'm not sure if it applies to me...so if you could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
And since I recently became a minister, I will name a church in your honor!!
Here's the story.
I've got some whacked conflict with my CD DVD drives.
Last year I was burning CDs on my new CD burner which was located in the D drive.That's all I had. Then later, I got a DVD player installed and it used the E drive...and I was using both simultaneously and all was peachy.
Eventually I had a problem and had to reinstall everything - I'd messed with win 2k at 4am and managed to repartition the HD to 0 space so had to get someone in to fix that. They did, all was back to normal.
Down the road I noticed that I was no longer showing the D drive, just the E...but could still burn CDs fine from, what I was assuming was the DVD player - it was supposed to be able to read-record, but anyway, stick it in the E drive, burn CDs, no problem. I also knew the DVD player, the new drive in was better so didn't sweat where the D drive went.
No problems. I didn't use the CD burner program again because I was busy doing other stuff but last month I decided to re-burn a CD I had that was skipping too bad, so fired up Stomp Record Now Max only to get a message that suddenly there is no recordable device on the machine. But yeah, there is, so I figured it was either an outdated program or driver. I tried without any luck to update that. So, I decided to use media player then real player-jukebox, only to get the same message: no recordable devices...but yeah there is. I haven't taken it out, it came with the computer.
I checked every single possible troubleshoting option available and nothing showed up as conflicting. The DVD drive E showed no conflicts. The D drive isn't listed at all to check it, but I did see BOTH drive lights on the tower light up. I shut it down and opened up the tower to check and they're plugged in and connected. The drives work. The buttons opened the drawers, etc. and the E drive still played other CDs, DVDs and software and audio. Just stopped buring.
I go into settings BIOS at start up and see that the Primary - Secondary slave-master are set to auto and have acknowledged ALL 4 drives, A (floppy) C (local) D (CD Rom) and E (DVD) and they're all showing but the two drives D&E are on auto and both set to 2 and 4 on each of them, which tells me they're both there and acknowledged.
At any rate, the machine registers the drives, but only the E - DVD player is showing in the control panel - system. (Well, A & C are, but not D). In there, the E drive is shown but it reads "compact disk" when it used to read DVD something or another. And I can't even access D anymore from any menu because it's not being picked up.
It's like the machine reads it, acknowledges it, the drives both work, but the software doesn't see it, not even windows to list it in device manager or in my computer.
I tinkered around and tried installing drivers it found on installing new hardware but none of them fix it.
Then, somehow in all that, the DVD player drive stopped spitting open the door manually via the button on the tower. I have to actually right click the E drive icon (or open Record Now wizard and click the "eject" button before the thing will open, and worse, when I do push the player button on the tower, I get this popping crap outta my speakers. ???
It only started that tonight so who knows what I did.
Anyway, this is the goal:
WITHOUT having to dump the whole system (because I cannot save it just yet), I want the D drive showing up and usable, the CD burner recognized, BOTH drive working right, all drivers updated, the settings set accurately so there is no more conflict, the drawers to open and close both manually and via the eject buttons, WITHOUT it having to do with the speakers (I have NO CLUE what made that happen)...and a partridge in a pear tree.
If anybody here understands this conflict, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me fix my machine!
Thank you very very very much.
PS: Oh, and I'm gonna need the Mars to human version, a.k.a. the dumba$$ version pretty please! The technical stuff goes clean over my head but I am willing to learn (and can easily) if I know what's what. Thanks!
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