CD/DVD drives wont show up

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 13, 2008, 11:49 PM

So my dad has lost all his CD/DVD drives in his computer. I cant get them to show up for nothing. They were working fine a few days ago then one just stopped showing up. By the time I went to see what was wrong, the other one started to do the same. I have tried different cables and different molex connectors along with different cables. One is an IDE and the other is a SATA. I swapped in two IDE DVD drives and those arent working either. Ive also tried uninstalling the Windows default driver for the drives and reinstalling them and it fails.

Anyone have an idea?

System is:

AMD Opteron 165 @2.7GHz
OCZ 2GB DDR400
DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D
OCZ 600w PSU
BFG 8800GTS 640MB

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 03:44 AM

Bump

wiak · Oct 14, 2008, 03:57 AM

if BIOS detects the drives
try this
http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 04:02 AM

The text file doesnt tell me what exactly it does. It just goes on to explain how you should merge a registry file.

wiak · Oct 14, 2008, 04:04 AM

yes run the .reg file
so it removes upper and lower filters on the dvd drives
this is the main reason why cd/dvd goes away, happends sometimes when you install dvd burning software, anydvd and such

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 04:09 AM

Had a feeling thats what it did but just wanted to be on the safe side.

Rebooting now to see.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 04:45 AM

Gone one drive to show up but not the other.

francis511 · Oct 14, 2008, 12:50 PM

Do they show up in bios ? Sounds like failing mobo.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by francis511

Do they show up in bios ? Sounds like failing mobo.

Both do yes.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by francis511

Do they show up in bios ? Sounds like failing mobo.

I want opinions on his diagnosis. Cause I tend to agree!

niko084 · Oct 14, 2008, 10:15 PM

search is your friend--

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...ighlight=drive
http://www.theeldergeek.com/restore_..._dvd_drive.htm

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko084

search is your friend--

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showth...ighlight=drive
http://www.theeldergeek.com/restore_..._dvd_drive.htm

Ive done all those already.

niko084 · Oct 14, 2008, 10:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CrAsHnBuRnXp

Ive done all those already.

Try a different cable, check your jumpers, check each drive alone, and if possible check a different ide port.

francis511 · Oct 14, 2008, 10:58 PM

Try uninstall , reboot , scan for new hardware...

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 11:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko084

Try a different cable, check your jumpers, check each drive alone, and if possible check a different ide port.

Yes, yes, no (not going to make much of a difference since Ive tried a SATA and IDE drive and im still not getting them), did.

Quote:

Originally Posted by francis511

Try uninstall , reboot , scan for new hardware...

I mentioned that I did that.

niko084 · Oct 14, 2008, 11:15 PM

Are they showing up in the device manager?

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko084

Are they showing up in the device manager?

With a yellow " ! " at one point yeah. That was before I removed the upper and lower filters. However, now only the one DVD drive shows up (the now working one) but the burner does not. It is detected at POST so the BIOS recognizes it.

niko084 · Oct 14, 2008, 11:26 PM

I know there is a goofy issue with Itunes, do you have that installed?

I would try to remove both the limit filters again, reboot and see if it works... :dunno

After that, I would be shooting for a repair install..

francis511 · Oct 14, 2008, 11:36 PM

Tried updating intel inf drivers ?

dcf-joe · Oct 14, 2008, 11:47 PM

I do not know if this will help you, because I sped through the other responses and it seemed as if removing the filters did not help.

But, I will try to help you. I do not have access to my computer now, ironically a storm just came through and took out the power. I am writing this message with my phone. This has happened to me recently, and I just googled "vista not recognizing dvd drive" (it doesn't matter if you have vista or not.) I read that I was to go into regedit - LocalSystem - CurrentControlSet - Control - Class - (4D36E965-E325-14CE-BFC1-08002BE10318) and remove the upper and lower limits.

I do not know if those are the correct numbers, but I hope so. It took me a while to write this, lucky I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 14, 2008, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko084

I know there is a goofy issue with Itunes, do you have that installed?

I would try to remove both the limit filters again, reboot and see if it works... :dunno

After that, I would be shooting for a repair install..

Dad doesnt even listen to music on his PC.

Dad wont take kindly to reformating his PC. He gets pissed everytime I do for some stupid reason.

Quote:

Originally Posted by francis511

Tried updating intel inf drivers ?

On an nVIDIA based board?

Quote:

Originally Posted by dcf-joe

I do not know if this will help you, because I sped through the other responses and it seemed as if removing the filters did not help.

But, I will try to help you. I do not have access to my computer now, ironically a storm just came through and took out the power. I am writing this message with my phone. This has happened to me recently, and I just googled "vista not recognizing dvd drive" (it doesn't matter if you have vista or not.) I read that I was to go into regedit - LocalSystem - CurrentControlSet - Control - Class - (4D36E965-E325-14CE-BFC1-08002BE10318) and remove the upper and lower limits.

I do not know if those are the correct numbers, but I hope so. It took me a while to write this, lucky I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone.

Tried removing filters already. Only brought back one drive.

niko084 · Oct 15, 2008, 03:03 PM

I didn't say format, I said run a repair installation.

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 16, 2008, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by niko084

I didn't say format, I said run a repair installation.

That doesnt work either.

Just spent the last 6 hrs doing that. Vista repair is useless. I could have done 20 wipes in a shorter amount of time.

thoughtdisorder · Oct 16, 2008, 05:41 PM

Have you tried this:

1) Power down computer.
2) Physically unplug the drives.
3) Power computer up fully.
4) Shut down computer.
5) Hook drives back up and power on.

Perhaps Vista will take it from there.......

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Oct 16, 2008, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thoughtdisorder

Have you tried this:

1) Power down computer.
2) Physically unplug the drives.
3) Power computer up fully.
4) Shut down computer.
5) Hook drives back up and power on.

Perhaps Vista will take it from there.......

No but I can try it.

Oct 13, 2008, 11:49 PM	#1
CrAsHnBuRnXp Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States Posts: 5,089 (2.49/day) Thanks: 453 Thanked 641 Times in 527 Posts System Specs	CD/DVD drives wont show up So my dad has lost all his CD/DVD drives in his computer. I cant get them to show up for nothing. They were working fine a few days ago then one just stopped showing up. By the time I went to see what was wrong, the other one started to do the same. I have tried different cables and different molex connectors along with different cables. One is an IDE and the other is a SATA. I swapped in two IDE DVD drives and those arent working either. Ive also tried uninstalling the Windows default driver for the drives and reinstalling them and it fails. Anyone have an idea? System is: AMD Opteron 165 @2.7GHz OCZ 2GB DDR400 DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D OCZ 600w PSU BFG 8800GTS 640MB __________________ Raid Arrays Explained Wanna look up your BSOD code? Heatware under CrAsHnBuRnXp http://crashtown.myminicity.com/ind CrAsHnBuRnXP's For Sale Thread

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Oct 14, 2008, 03:44 AM	#2
CrAsHnBuRnXp Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States Posts: 5,089 (2.49/day) Thanks: 453 Thanked 641 Times in 527 Posts System Specs	Bump __________________ Raid Arrays Explained Wanna look up your BSOD code? Heatware under CrAsHnBuRnXp http://crashtown.myminicity.com/ind CrAsHnBuRnXP's For Sale Thread

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Processor:	Intel i5 2500k @ 4.3GHz w/ Corsair H60
Motherboard:	Asus P8P67 (Rev 3.1)
Cooling:	1x200mm LED fan, 5x120mm LED fans
Memory:	G.skill DDR3 1600MHz 2x2GB @ 2133MHz
Video Card:	BFG nVIDIA GTX 285
Hard Disk:	Mushkin 120GB Chronos SSD, Seagate 750GB SATAII & WD 250GBx2 SATAII
Optical Drive:	LiteOn DVD-ROM, LG DVD-RW± DL SATA
CRT/LCD Model:	LG 24 inch Flatron
Case:	Antec Twelve Hundred Full Tower
Sound Card:	Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer / Plantronics Gamecom Headphones
PSU:	Corsair HX750w Professional Series
Software:	Windows 7 x64 Professional

Oct 14, 2008, 03:57 AM	#3
wiak Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 1,681 (0.53/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 199 Times in 156 Posts	if BIOS detects the drives try this http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip __________________ My rig @ overclock.net \| My new friend OpenShot

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Oct 14, 2008, 04:02 AM	#4
CrAsHnBuRnXp Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States Posts: 5,089 (2.49/day) Thanks: 453 Thanked 641 Times in 527 Posts System Specs	The text file doesnt tell me what exactly it does. It just goes on to explain how you should merge a registry file. __________________ Raid Arrays Explained Wanna look up your BSOD code? Heatware under CrAsHnBuRnXp http://crashtown.myminicity.com/ind CrAsHnBuRnXP's For Sale Thread

Oct 14, 2008, 04:04 AM	#5
wiak Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Norway Posts: 1,681 (0.53/day) Thanks: 15 Thanked 199 Times in 156 Posts	yes run the .reg file so it removes upper and lower filters on the dvd drives this is the main reason why cd/dvd goes away, happends sometimes when you install dvd burning software, anydvd and such __________________ My rig @ overclock.net \| My new friend OpenShot

Oct 14, 2008, 04:09 AM	#6
CrAsHnBuRnXp Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States Posts: 5,089 (2.49/day) Thanks: 453 Thanked 641 Times in 527 Posts System Specs	Had a feeling thats what it did but just wanted to be on the safe side. Rebooting now to see. __________________ Raid Arrays Explained Wanna look up your BSOD code? Heatware under CrAsHnBuRnXp http://crashtown.myminicity.com/ind CrAsHnBuRnXP's For Sale Thread

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CrAsHnBuRnXp Eligible for custom title Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: United States Posts: 5,089 (2.49/day) Thanks: 453 Thanked 641 Times in 527 Posts System Specs	Gone one drive to show up but not the other. __________________ Raid Arrays Explained Wanna look up your BSOD code? Heatware under CrAsHnBuRnXp http://crashtown.myminicity.com/ind CrAsHnBuRnXP's For Sale Thread

Oct 14, 2008, 12:50 PM	#8
francis511 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.Ireland Posts: 2,363 (0.98/day) Thanks: 145 Thanked 277 Times in 257 Posts System Specs	Do they show up in bios ? Sounds like failing mobo. __________________

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Oct 14, 2008, 10:15 PM	#11
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Oct 14, 2008, 10:58 PM	#14
francis511 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.Ireland Posts: 2,363 (0.98/day) Thanks: 145 Thanked 277 Times in 257 Posts System Specs	Try uninstall , reboot , scan for new hardware... __________________

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Oct 14, 2008, 11:26 PM	#18
niko084 Eligible for custom title Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota Posts: 6,387 (2.70/day) Thanks: 190 Thanked 739 Times in 599 Posts System Specs	I know there is a goofy issue with Itunes, do you have that installed? I would try to remove both the limit filters again, reboot and see if it works... :dunno After that, I would be shooting for a repair install.. __________________ This electronic post is encrypted in the 'English language method', any attempt to decipher meaning from these symbols is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. This includes, but is not limited to: interpreting the symbols through use of biological, visual decryption devices, translating the symbols into another language encryption scheme, and digital processing the symbols into a form conducive to oral interpretation. HWBOT HEATWARE

Oct 14, 2008, 11:36 PM	#19
francis511 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: N.Ireland Posts: 2,363 (0.98/day) Thanks: 145 Thanked 277 Times in 257 Posts System Specs	Tried updating intel inf drivers ? __________________

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dcf-joe Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Nebraska, USA Posts: 327 (0.17/day) Thanks: 61 Thanked 18 Times in 18 Posts System Specs	I do not know if this will help you, because I sped through the other responses and it seemed as if removing the filters did not help. But, I will try to help you. I do not have access to my computer now, ironically a storm just came through and took out the power. I am writing this message with my phone. This has happened to me recently, and I just googled "vista not recognizing dvd drive" (it doesn't matter if you have vista or not.) I read that I was to go into regedit - LocalSystem - CurrentControlSet - Control - Class - (4D36E965-E325-14CE-BFC1-08002BE10318) and remove the upper and lower limits. I do not know if those are the correct numbers, but I hope so. It took me a while to write this, lucky I have a qwerty keyboard on my phone.

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Oct 15, 2008, 03:03 PM	#22
niko084 Eligible for custom title Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Saint Paul, Minnesota Posts: 6,387 (2.70/day) Thanks: 190 Thanked 739 Times in 599 Posts System Specs	I didn't say format, I said run a repair installation. __________________ This electronic post is encrypted in the 'English language method', any attempt to decipher meaning from these symbols is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. This includes, but is not limited to: interpreting the symbols through use of biological, visual decryption devices, translating the symbols into another language encryption scheme, and digital processing the symbols into a form conducive to oral interpretation. HWBOT HEATWARE

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