Hi,
Rather than searching the forums for other people's solutions, I would rather just post about my own specific issue that I've been having with my DVD-ROM drive.
I noticed this about 2 days ago. I went to run a disc. So I pressed the DVD drive button and the tray came out like normal. The green light comes on when I open the tray, and it appears to be reading the disc, but nothing happens. The drive won't show up in My Computer and it won't show up in Device Manager. There's only a section for "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers'. There is no CD/DVD drive section. The drive shows up normally when I check my BIOS settings. I tried the simple Microsoft registry fix by deleting the "Upperfilter". I tried running the system hardware troubleshooter. Nothing. It seems like the computer knows the drive is there, it just won't launch the disc or show up in Device Manager.
I tried examining the plugs and cables to make sure they were not loose. Everything looks fine in the PC itself. There's only 2 cables going from that drive: one goes to power, and one is a ribbon that goes to the "IDE1" outlet. I pulled it out and plugged it back in.
Would this have anything to do with virtual drives? I use Daemon Tools to mount images sometimes and I think that may have messed something up with my actual disc drive.
I run Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
3072Mb of Memory
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
System Manufacturer: OEM
System Model: OEM
All help appreciated. Thanks.
Rather than searching the forums for other people's solutions, I would rather just post about my own specific issue that I've been having with my DVD-ROM drive.
I noticed this about 2 days ago. I went to run a disc. So I pressed the DVD drive button and the tray came out like normal. The green light comes on when I open the tray, and it appears to be reading the disc, but nothing happens. The drive won't show up in My Computer and it won't show up in Device Manager. There's only a section for "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers'. There is no CD/DVD drive section. The drive shows up normally when I check my BIOS settings. I tried the simple Microsoft registry fix by deleting the "Upperfilter". I tried running the system hardware troubleshooter. Nothing. It seems like the computer knows the drive is there, it just won't launch the disc or show up in Device Manager.
I tried examining the plugs and cables to make sure they were not loose. Everything looks fine in the PC itself. There's only 2 cables going from that drive: one goes to power, and one is a ribbon that goes to the "IDE1" outlet. I pulled it out and plugged it back in.
Would this have anything to do with virtual drives? I use Daemon Tools to mount images sometimes and I think that may have messed something up with my actual disc drive.
I run Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601)
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz
3072Mb of Memory
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
System Manufacturer: OEM
System Model: OEM
All help appreciated. Thanks.