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BombBomb
21-05-2003, 04:17 PM
Hello,

basically my drives (ROM & re-writer) are John Shafted ;/ I don't really know how or why but to be honest I've gone CDless for almost a month & a half and it's getting tiresome :)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bombbomb/cd/meh1.gif
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bombbomb/cd/meh2.gif
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bombbomb/cd/meh3.gif

I think it may have happened when I installed new ViA4in1 drivers a while back...

It's a KT7-A motherboard, Athlon Thunderbird CPU, Windows2K, SBLive, GeForce2GTS, etc

I've never really had any problems with either of them under this setup before.

I do have my HDD partitioned into C: and D:, and looking at setups for CD drives & the like I noticed the config.sys will try & make the default CD to D:... ;/

Cheers. :)

PS: for the format c: crew - format c:
MaVeRiCk
21-05-2003, 04:23 PM
might be an idea, but how bout downloading latest drivers and install em? : )
jONor`
21-05-2003, 04:31 PM
i am cddrive less, for about a month now :{ but thats coz i suck :{ and got in a mood with, and hit them, oh how im sorry =-(!
BombBomb
21-05-2003, 09:25 PM
Originally posted by MaVeRiCk
might be an idea, but how bout downloading latest drivers and install em? : ) I've tried that already, regardless of what drivers I install, it comes up with the "cannot load drivers" thing, but thanks for playing : )
Psymonkee
21-05-2003, 09:28 PM
not too sure tbh - i'll take a little looksie at my pc and see what it has too :)
Jenks
21-05-2003, 09:28 PM
Remove them and then reboot
storm^don
22-05-2003, 12:08 AM
Format c: /q :E
Helical
22-05-2003, 12:16 AM
Tried this ?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

I had a similar problem on a pc and it was nothing to do with ez cd creator and that article sorted it.
BombBomb
22-05-2003, 01:05 AM
Yay, seems to recognise them properly now... :D

Thanks lots Helical! And others :)
BombBomb
22-05-2003, 01:37 AM
Now I don't suppose anyone can fix the problem I had before they gave up totally, which has returned - they won't play Audio CDs and have trouble reading some data CDs?

:D?
Badger
22-05-2003, 02:12 AM
They are shit?
Get some decent ones?
lol
Helical
22-05-2003, 11:57 AM
Go to device manager and unistall both drives then go to the action menu and scan for hardware changes.

You may want to try with DMA on/off too.

Stick SP1 on if you havent already.

I'm assuming you've got XP :)
Psymonkee
22-05-2003, 12:21 PM
he's on 2k :P

sp3 is where its at :OF

:D
Helical
22-05-2003, 01:49 PM
Ok do everything except SP1 :E
Skie
30-05-2003, 01:11 AM
they won't play Audio CDs

dunno if you got this sorted or not... but make sure the cable runs from your cd drive to your sound card... 4 pin cable, if I remem correctly.