i have an atapi cd re-writer drive and it was working for about a week ago and when i tried after being allowed to go back on the cdrom wouldnt open and no longer shows up in device manager,bios, or my computer. The ood thing is that when u leave it alone for about an hour the cdrom drive pops open but wont read cdrom and when i restart it, it stops working

I have the same exact problem with my Philips 800 CDRW. Was working for almost 10 months but couple days ago it stopped working and doesn't show up on device manager. Im using windows xp. Any help?

Have either of you installed then uninstalled any recording software? :hail:

No i havent. My comp has Nero on it but i didnt bother it.

No i havent. My comp has Nero on it but i didnt bother it.
Is the drive listed in Device Manager? Are the ide ports reported to be working ok in Device Manager as well? :hdspin:

Is the drive listed in Device Manager? Are the ide ports reported to be working ok in Device Manager as well? :hdspin:

My Philips cdrw 800 is not listed in Device manager. Not sure what the IDe are but checked themin the device manager and it shows them to be all working

Not the IDe... the ide ports. The port/s your drive is connected to via a 40 pin ribbon cable. You should have 3 listings under HARD DISK CONTROLLERS. Do you and are they ok?

If drive is detected by the os, then it should be listed in Device Manager under CD-ROM. If ide ports are also ok, but drive doesn't work, I can only assume it's a defective drive or it's not configured/jumpered/connected properly.

sry writing this but do not have much info with me at school but at my home computer i look in ide drive in device manager and i have 3 one is something ide the other Primary IDE and last is Secondary IDE but i cant remember if it has master in the name right now and if i was a home i am having trouble with my interet it wont let me go to any webpages because of a stupid dns error, but yeah, and almost a week ago when it started it up it said Atapi Cd-Rom with a box underneath it and the last thing i saw is that it could not detect it and i look in the registry keys and see the drive info is there so i deleted it and thought that would do something so if anyone could help me plz send me instruction on reinstalling cd-rom drives and oh yeah if i haven't mentioned the cd rom drive does not appear anywhere now but it does do that thing after an hour where it well open up but now it freezes me from everything forcing me to restart to do anything

Steve.... what operating system are you using? :gabby:

Checked connection wires everything looks good. As far as the ide ports how do i check them? It's odd that it just disappeared off computer with no trace. Have no idea whats going on. Like intermediate in computer skills bear with.

Have either of you installed then uninstalled any recording software? :hail:

Smae problem for me...my cd r/rw drive is recognized only some of the time...where is it?...don't see it on the device manager, shows onley the player, not the recorder...I have installed recording software (demo versions to check to see if any can see the drive)

Check out this article, I had the same problem and cussed for two days before I found this. [ Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314060 ] Followed the instructions and I got them back up.
Bob

Check out this article, I had the same problem and cussed for two days before I found this. [ Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314060 ] Followed the instructions and I got them back up.
Bob


Followed the instructions. At first didnt have the upper and lower filter files. Then i installed Easy Cd Creator and then they appeared in the registry. I deleted them restarted and still doesnt work.

Checked connection wires everything looks good. As far as the ide ports how do i check them? It's odd that it just disappeared off computer with no trace. Have no idea whats going on. Like intermediate in computer skills bear with.

Check IDE ports in Device Manager. (hard disk controllers) :hdspin: