K8NSNXP and cd-writer problem

[Guest]

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Hi

I have a new K8NSNXP (socket 754) mobo and tried to hook up my HP9100
cd-writer. The bios sees the drive alright, but it does not show up in
Device manager. It's on the second IDE, I have tried it alone and as master
or slave together with a normal cd rom drive (not a writer). The normal
cdrom drive works fine and so does my DVD/CDRom drive on primary IDE.
What does show up in Device Manager is a 'Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom
device', that does not exist in reality, but even has a drive letter
attached and asks for a disk when clicked on with Explorer.

Currently the 'nforce3 250 Parallel ATA controller v2.6' is installed as IDE
controller.
With the 'standard IDE Controller', I did see the drive, the system tried to
read an inserted disk, but that was it.
I also tried an old Philips cd-writer, same story.

Anybody out thee that has any ideas on this?

 

[mercury]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

I have seen something like this when some strange CD software was installed
with one of the CD utilities.
My cd drive letters would not behave, and an odd scsi cd was in device
manager...

"Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
news:41e15b21$0$773$3a628fcd@reader10.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> Hi
>
> I have a new K8NSNXP (socket 754) mobo and tried to hook up my HP9100
> cd-writer. The bios sees the drive alright, but it does not show up in
> Device manager. It's on the second IDE, I have tried it alone and as
> master
> or slave together with a normal cd rom drive (not a writer). The normal
> cdrom drive works fine and so does my DVD/CDRom drive on primary IDE.
> What does show up in Device Manager is a 'Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom
> device', that does not exist in reality, but even has a drive letter
> attached and asks for a disk when clicked on with Explorer.
>
> Currently the 'nforce3 250 Parallel ATA controller v2.6' is installed as
> IDE
> controller.
> With the 'standard IDE Controller', I did see the drive, the system tried
> to
> read an inserted disk, but that was it.
> I also tried an old Philips cd-writer, same story.
>
> Anybody out thee that has any ideas on this?
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Thanks Mercury

I have seen this happen with CD-Creator too. But I went over the registry
cleaning out the entries having to do with CD-Creator and DirectCD. I have
also used software to clean out the registry.
On top of that, I also have win98 on the machine, cleanly installed and that
gives the same result. So I don't think it's the software in this case.

Hans

"Mercury" <me@spam.com> wrote in message
news:crssd8$uc8$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> I have seen something like this when some strange CD software was
installed
> with one of the CD utilities.
> My cd drive letters would not behave, and an odd scsi cd was in device
> manager...
>
> "Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:41e15b21$0$773$3a628fcd@reader10.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a new K8NSNXP (socket 754) mobo and tried to hook up my HP9100
> > cd-writer. The bios sees the drive alright, but it does not show up in
> > Device manager. It's on the second IDE, I have tried it alone and as
> > master
> > or slave together with a normal cd rom drive (not a writer). The normal
> > cdrom drive works fine and so does my DVD/CDRom drive on primary IDE.
> > What does show up in Device Manager is a 'Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom
> > device', that does not exist in reality, but even has a drive letter
> > attached and asks for a disk when clicked on with Explorer.
> >
> > Currently the 'nforce3 250 Parallel ATA controller v2.6' is installed as
> > IDE
> > controller.
> > With the 'standard IDE Controller', I did see the drive, the system
tried
> > to
> > read an inserted disk, but that was it.
> > I also tried an old Philips cd-writer, same story.
> >
> > Anybody out thee that has any ideas on this?
> >
> >
>
>

 

[mercury]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

hmmm win98, it may need drivers from HP then, but that would be horribly
odd.

"Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
news:41e36aa0$0$774$3a628fcd@reader20.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> Thanks Mercury
>
> I have seen this happen with CD-Creator too. But I went over the registry
> cleaning out the entries having to do with CD-Creator and DirectCD. I have
> also used software to clean out the registry.
> On top of that, I also have win98 on the machine, cleanly installed and
> that
> gives the same result. So I don't think it's the software in this case.
>
> Hans
>
> "Mercury" <me@spam.com> wrote in message
> news:crssd8$uc8$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> I have seen something like this when some strange CD software was
> installed
>> with one of the CD utilities.
>> My cd drive letters would not behave, and an odd scsi cd was in device
>> manager...
>>
>> "Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
>> news:41e15b21$0$773$3a628fcd@reader10.nntp.hccnet.nl...
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I have a new K8NSNXP (socket 754) mobo and tried to hook up my HP9100
>> > cd-writer. The bios sees the drive alright, but it does not show up in
>> > Device manager. It's on the second IDE, I have tried it alone and as
>> > master
>> > or slave together with a normal cd rom drive (not a writer). The
>> > normal
>> > cdrom drive works fine and so does my DVD/CDRom drive on primary IDE.
>> > What does show up in Device Manager is a 'Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom
>> > device', that does not exist in reality, but even has a drive letter
>> > attached and asks for a disk when clicked on with Explorer.
>> >
>> > Currently the 'nforce3 250 Parallel ATA controller v2.6' is installed
>> > as
>> > IDE
>> > controller.
>> > With the 'standard IDE Controller', I did see the drive, the system
> tried
>> > to
>> > read an inserted disk, but that was it.
>> > I also tried an old Philips cd-writer, same story.
>> >
>> > Anybody out thee that has any ideas on this?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Biker]

Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Finally fixed it. This may be of interest to people with the same problem.

1. I disabled the generic device in the Device Manager.
2. Without restarting, I went into the registry and removed the entries for
the Generic DVD in the SCSI part of the reg.
(you need to set the permissions to full first or else you cannot delete
them)
3. ran FixIt, to make sure all loose ends in the reg were gone
4. restarted
5. the drive was still there. then tried to reinstall Daemon from D-Tools.
Now this is the important part: probably because
I cleaned the registry, the installation failed. Daemon then did a roll-back
and this got rid of the generic DVD !
6. Restarted and did a rollback on the IDE drivers. I had the nForce3
drivers installed and the drive didn't show up. So, the Roll-back returned
the Standard Dual PCI drivers.
7. Restarted and the drive is back and working.
It seems that 1.Daemon installs this Generic DVD and it lingers after
uninstalling daemon. and 2. the nForce IDE driver doe not understand the
CD-writer device (I also tried my old and trusted Philips 2x cd-writer).


"Mercury" <me@spam.com> wrote in message
news:crvqb8$8k1$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> hmmm win98, it may need drivers from HP then, but that would be horribly
> odd.
>
> "Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
> news:41e36aa0$0$774$3a628fcd@reader20.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> > Thanks Mercury
> >
> > I have seen this happen with CD-Creator too. But I went over the
registry
> > cleaning out the entries having to do with CD-Creator and DirectCD. I
have
> > also used software to clean out the registry.
> > On top of that, I also have win98 on the machine, cleanly installed and
> > that
> > gives the same result. So I don't think it's the software in this case.
> >
> > Hans
> >
> > "Mercury" <me@spam.com> wrote in message
> > news:crssd8$uc8$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> >> I have seen something like this when some strange CD software was
> > installed
> >> with one of the CD utilities.
> >> My cd drive letters would not behave, and an odd scsi cd was in device
> >> manager...
> >>
> >> "Hans Brinkman" <generic@hccnet.nl> wrote in message
> >> news:41e15b21$0$773$3a628fcd@reader10.nntp.hccnet.nl...
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > I have a new K8NSNXP (socket 754) mobo and tried to hook up my HP9100
> >> > cd-writer. The bios sees the drive alright, but it does not show up
in
> >> > Device manager. It's on the second IDE, I have tried it alone and as
> >> > master
> >> > or slave together with a normal cd rom drive (not a writer). The
> >> > normal
> >> > cdrom drive works fine and so does my DVD/CDRom drive on primary IDE.
> >> > What does show up in Device Manager is a 'Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom
> >> > device', that does not exist in reality, but even has a drive letter
> >> > attached and asks for a disk when clicked on with Explorer.
> >> >
> >> > Currently the 'nforce3 250 Parallel ATA controller v2.6' is installed
> >> > as
> >> > IDE
> >> > controller.
> >> > With the 'standard IDE Controller', I did see the drive, the system
> > tried
> >> > to
> >> > read an inserted disk, but that was it.
> >> > I also tried an old Philips cd-writer, same story.
> >> >
> >> > Anybody out thee that has any ideas on this?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>