CD-Rom not recognized in: BIOS or Device Mgr. or my computer

If the BIOS can't see it, XP surely won't. Replace it with a working unit.

rmorda wrote:

> Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem yet?
>
> I'm having the same problem on 2 laptops! I can't figure it out for
> the life of me....
>
> Thanks!
>
>

A continuation to this laptop CD drive problem. These laptop CD drives may
not have physical jumpers. The setting of Master / Slave drive "jumper" is
done electronically within the drive's firmware. It is important to only do
firmware updates from the correct firmware update package intended for the
exact model of laptop / drive.

Was any "firmware" update done on this laptop / CD drive?

On 02/05/2008 Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:
>If the BIOS can't see it, XP surely won't. Replace it with a working unit.
>
>rmorda wrote:
>
>> Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem yet?
>>
>> I'm having the same problem on 2 laptops! I can't figure it out for
>> the life of me....
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>

The BIOS of these laptops are very "simple". They don't have any
"normal" BIOS options that allow you to enable/disable the cd-rom.

The only other way to test them would be to try to boot from cd. Next
time I have the laptop in front of me (it is used by another user), I
will have to try this.

As for the Firmware updates; no updates have been made to the cd-rom's
firmware. However, I did burn the bootable firmware disc, so I can try
that as well and see if the firmware fixes it or not. However, if the
BIOS doesn't detect the cd-rom, then I can't boot from the firmware
disc.

I thought about importing registry entries from another laptop of the
same type which is working and see if that fixes it as well.

Other than that, I don't know, I figure it's probably a motherboard
issue.


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On May 2, 11:26*am, rmorda <rmorda.38s...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> The BIOS of these laptops are very "simple". *They don't have any
> "normal" BIOS options that allow you to enable/disable the cd-rom. *
>
> The only other way to test them would be to try to boot from cd. *Next
> time I have the laptop in front of me (it is used by another user), I
> will have to try this.
>
> As for the Firmware updates; no updates have been made to the cd-rom's
> firmware. *However, I did burn the bootable firmware disc, so I can try
> that as well and see if the firmware fixes it or not. *However, if the
> BIOS doesn't detect the cd-rom, then I can't boot from the firmware
> disc.
>
> I thought about importing registry entries from another laptop of the
> same type which is working and see if that fixes it as well.
>
> Other than that, I don't know, I figure it's probably a motherboard
> issue.
>
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If the BIOS is not seeing the drive, the no software changes or
registry "patching" will ever make the CD drive show up. It must show
up in the BIOS before any versions of Windows can see it. Therefore,
if no "firmware" update was ever done, then their is a physical
problem with the drive. You might be able to locate a replacement
drive over the web.

Well, I have already tried replacement drives and none of them work.

Perhaps a BIOS update would do the trick?


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On May 2, 1:28*pm, rmorda <rmorda.38s...@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:
> Well, I have already tried replacement drives and none of them work.
>
> Perhaps a BIOS update would do the trick?
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Then the problem could well be the laptop's connection for the CD ron
drive.