Dual Moniters!!! (prev - CDRom Drives not recognised)

binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Ive just gone to stick a CD in my PC and the drawer opened as normal.
Then nothing
Light flashed on CDRom Drive. and still nothing.

Went into my computer, and the only device in thre is my 3.5in Floppy drive. The CDrom drives arent there.

Any ideas?

The were working the other day though, As normal.

Bigeds · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Karma :

My twopenneth

I take it your hard drive was still listed?

My daughters PC has does this and in her case it seems to be related to overheating (I know it sounds odd).

If trying another cd and a restart produces no results the next thing is to open up that case and reseat the hard drive cables. I find its best to disconnect and then reconnect rather than just having a look to see that they are connected.

Are the fans all spinning up when the PC boots?

All this assumes you have made no changes since it last worked and no one has been playing in the BIOS!!

numark1 · Scared of girls Joined: 10 May 2004 Karma :

Check cables as mentioned.

Trya different power cable and refit the ide cable.

Could just be a broken drive.

binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Ive got 2 CDrom Drives, Neither of them work.
In the Drivers Window both CDRom drives have "!"s next to them.

Ive been told its a common XP fault.

ive backdated the PC to before when they were working. And still nothing.

Gona have a little lookie inside the Tower I think.

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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Still got the problem. Any ideaS/

DucatiEVO · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Karma :

If you remove the CD-drives in device manager, reboot, do they re-add themselves automatically, or do they still show the '!'...?

It maybe your usual IDE driver has been overwritten and perhaps windows is using it's own naff one. If the above doesn't work, download the latest Motherboard IDE drivers for your machine, and then update them in 'Device Manager'.

Did you check the cables as suggested earlier?

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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Checked cables.
When I uninstall the drivers and reboot. They re add as "Unknown hardware" no software found etc. Still with the "!".

Fugging nightmare!

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

just a suggestion but check with your motherboard manufacturers website for an IDE driver.
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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

who makes your motherboard/PC?
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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Compaq

DevilWAH · Nova Slayer Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Karma :

ok something that can cause this is.

do you have any third party cd writing softwear installed on your PC?

roxy cd creator, or any thing else??

these are know to interfea with the windows drivers. and you can find the information about it on the microsoft knowlage base.

the only way to get around it is to uninstall the softwear and reboot!

roxy cd creator is well known for causing this. and i have a number of PC each week i see with it.
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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Ive got Recordnow. But that is on the PC as standard.

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

go to https://welcome.hp.com/country/uk/en/support.html?pageDisplay=drivers and input your model then check for IDE drivers/updates.
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DevilWAH · Nova Slayer Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Karma :

binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Ok, I didnt understand a word of that ^ Laughing

ive tried uninstalling both drivers. Restarting. Comp re-installs them, restarts again. And still they dont work.

What if I was to save everything to a memstick duo, And then format the PC. Run the Compaq drivers. And reintall everything.

Would that help?

Would doing that make me loose my virus software which im paying Monthly for?

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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Looked at that site you posted but its HP?
Is that going to work being HP? and not Compaq?

T1z3R · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Oct 2005 Karma :

compaq are now owned by HP.
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DevilWAH · Nova Slayer Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Karma :

ok here goes Wink

click on the start button
then click where it says run,
in the box that comes up type regedit and press return.

a program will open up with a tree/menu on the left hand pane and a big pane on the right hand side
on the left hand pane find and expand hkey local machine (click on the little + to the left of it) . then carry on expanding system... currentcontrol set... etc etc
till you can see a big list of things simmler to the {4d36e965-e....... part
left click on this when you see it (actualy on the name not on the little + symble if there is one) and in the right hand screen will apper some values.
find where is says upper and lower values then clcik once on them to highlight them and hit hte delete key. (confim you want to delete them by chocing yes)

once you have done them both jsut restart the PC.
And belive me it does work! jsut make sure these 2 values are the only thing you delete.
The registory is not a good place to play in. you can cause nasty things to start happening!!

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

Holy crap. You ARE a legend! It worked"! Very Happy

Everyone give Much Karma to this guy!!! ^^^^

Now, Next big ??? is...

How do I run 2 moniters?

not cos I need to, Because I WANT to! Laughing

seriously.

NSR Mick · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Karma :

Dual output card or 2 graphics cards.

I run 3 one off a dual head agp card the other off a pci card. Cool

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binge · Emo Kiddy Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Karma :

But will that be

Moniter 1
Moniter 2

Or will it be

Moniter 1 * 2

I want to have 2 seperate moniters where I can have 2 lots of windows.

Ive got a graphics card, and Ive also got a moniter output on the motherboard, built in sort of thing.
But when I plug a moniter into this I get a blank screen.

NSR Mick · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jun 2005 Karma :

Yes you can have monitor 1 and 2.

Most motherboards disable the onboard graphics when you install another.

do you get 2 monitors showing in your display properties. Like so

https://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws/media/Display_properties.gif
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