Where did my CD burner go??

[SilverSurfer]

I just burned a CD yesterday. Today the computer does not even find the drive. It says unable to detect on startup. I just noticed the other day that I started getting a message on startup (that I've never gotten before) that all my drives were automatically updated. I have 2 hard drives which are C and D, a system save E, and my CD-ROM, and my burner, which are F and G. Now all it recognizes is the CD-ROM. I have no idea what to do next. No matter what I do it won't recognize the burner. The light for the burner comes on on startup, but then goes away once the computer is booted. I can even open the drive door when the computer starts up, but once it is all the way booted up, it doesn't recognize the drive and the door won't open. I'm stumped. Any advice?

 

[Savio]

Try going to your bios and setting it back to the default settings and see what you get first...

If that doesn't work go to your device manager and see if you have any conflicts.

 

[SilverSurfer]

Can you tell me how to do those things? I don't know how to set the bios. In the device manager, the computer doesn't see the drive at all. And the burner didn't come with the computer, I installed it, but I've had it on there for 2 years now no problem. I don't see how setting the BIOS to the original settings would help.

 

[mathmajors]

Most CD drives use the PC's existing IDE channel, which means you shouldn't have to install any drivers. This also enforces what Sav is saying - if the BIOS sees it, then if there aren't any problems with your operating system, it should see it too.

If the BIOS doesn't see it, either something has changed, like the configuration, or the drive is shot.

Other folks can add to this, but Compaq BIOS is usually F10, Dell is usually F2 on new versions, IBM is F1. Other older BIOS can be accessed with the delete key. Once you figure out which it is (your PC should tell you when you power it on), look around and see if it detects both CD drives.

 

[SilverSurfer]

Ok, I got the damn thing to see the drives, I set the BIOS to default, but now when I try to drop a CD in the burner or ANYTHING in my CD-ROM drive, I get a "blue screen of death" that said an exception occurred in something about scsi. In other words, now neither drive will work. I tried removing them both, then when the computer rebooted it sees them again, but any sort of CD I try to put in either drive causes the damn computer to crash. What the hell am I doing wrong?

I guess I'm gonna have to take the damn thing to get it fixed, unless ya'll have got some more advice. Fucking computer.

 

[Savio]

yeah...here's the easiest way....The blue screen of death is always not very good...my best bet....start clean

FORMAT!

 

[cltbuilder]

I have the same problem Surfer, kinda. My computer finds the drive and I can access and write to it using a program called DirectCD. But Adaptec Easy CD Creator says it don't exist. Two years, no problems. Bastards.

Oh...And I pretty much gave up on Adaptec and found another program that would work fine if I would pay the registration fee.

 

[SilverSurfer]

Originally posted by cltbuilder

Oh...And I pretty much gave up on Adaptec and found another program that would work fine if I would pay the registration fee.

What is it? The program I mean?

I think I've had it with Adaptec. I need something that will work with a Hewlett Packard 4X Burner. I'm going to take Savio's advice and reformat it tomorrow night. Luckily I have a second hard drive I can move anything on C from that I need to before I format. Nero will NOT work. It crashed my computer every time, in fact I had to get the Adaptec because Nero wouldn't work.

Anyway, let me know soon if you can because if I don't find something else compatible with this burner, I'll have to reinstall this Adaptec crap. Son of a bitch.

 

[cltbuilder]

Stomp RecordNow Max

I got it from www.download.com

 

[BigMark]

We have new computers with new CD burners for 755. Call me.