CD and writer not responding?

[SupDawg]

Originally posted by AutoBot2000
I did install Nero which came with the buner. Im not a big fan of nero only cause i dont know my way around it to well but i put it on to see how it is and to test it out. And i didnt like it so i took it off and you after i took it off that when the drives havent been showing up. How to you fix something like that?

Well, reinstall it as much I hate to say it. It could have sis something to your ASPI layer. Or install another (different one)

[AutoBot2000]

Well i tried hooking up one CD drive and hard drive on one ribbon on IDE1 and it worked fine. windows XP pro found it and i did restarts and it still was there and turned it off and still was there so im guessing its IDE2 is bad. Some how it might have had some kinda power spike cause the LED that used to light up when there was power doesnt come on anymore. I thought maybe the bulb went out but no after this im guessing its the IDE2 port. Im going to try putting on buring software and have the drive back on IDE2 and see what happens maybe there is some kinda conflict going on that decive manger is not finding.
Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

[wildboar]

WinXP has horrible problems with CDRW...especially older units. I am still working out details with a perfectly good CDRW that stopped responding after XP upgrade. The possible fixes are too numerous to wrte here. Suggest you read up on Microsoft Knowledge Base...