Solve : CD-ROM not seen by computer?

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Answer» Computer doesn't see my CD-ROM drive. Not in my computer, I have CHANGED ribbon cable, power plug, and cd drive. Is it turned off some where. Geatway Pentium III 447 MHz What does Device Manager say?Don't know your o/s but I had the same problem with w98se and ended up physically disconnecting the ribbon cable and power from the cdrom, removed it from the 'device manager' and then re-installed the driver from my system disk and on re-boot it was detected and now works fine. Ok. On my way to ck device manager in system I clicked in-still mew hard wear first, It FOUND new hard wear (not CD-ROM)I instilled it. AMP-8151 Hyper Transport AGP3.0 Graphic Tunnel. I don't know what it is but should not have instilled. Now I don't have a mouse or key board can't get past password window. Later will try to uninstall in self mode. Right now my circulating pump on HEATING system is acting up.will fix it first. Thinks for reply. eilselThis should be interesting... I clicked in-still mew hard wear first Is this for real? I gotta see this computer with a circulating pump and heating system! Quote I gotta see this computer with a circulating pump and heating system! Ok, BRONI... I just have to say it... What the [email protected]%# is that? hahahaThis is a computer with a circulating pump and heating system....LOLYa got me buddy - LOL.Ha Ha! Didn't say computer had a pump. Just that I though my heat came before my computer. But working on bouth of them. Thinks guys.What version of Windows? Shouldn't we start with some facts like that and what happened PRIOR to all of this?I have Windows Xp Pro Prower supply spiked by prower co. Toke my hhd w/ XP out and put it in this Gateway unit after doing this CD-ROM not listed. WinAduit doesn't list CD-ROM eatherSpellcheck worked for your sig but it's broken in your posts... Quote from: eilsel on December 01, 2007, 02:37:39 PM I have Windows Xp Pro Prower supply spiked by prower co. Toke my hhd w/ XP out and put it in this Gateway unit after doing this CD-ROM not listed. WinAduit doesn't list CD-ROM eather This is difficult to read, but you say you took a hard drive with XP loaded on it and put it into another machine with a completely different motherboard and components and are having problems? That would not surprise me to start with. Was this CD ROM in the damaged machine originaly? It may have been ruined there as WELL. If not are you sure it is working? Have you tried it in another machine? You could boot with a Linux Live CD and find out soon enough also. (www.knoppix.com)

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Computer doesn't see my CD-ROM drive. Not in my computer, I have CHANGED ribbon cable, power plug, and cd drive. Is it turned off some where.
Geatway
Pentium III 447 MHz
What does Device Manager say?Don't know your o/s but I had the same problem with w98se and ended up physically disconnecting the ribbon cable and power from the cdrom, removed it from the 'device manager' and then re-installed the driver from my system disk and on re-boot it was detected and now works fine. Ok. On my way to ck device manager in system I clicked in-still mew hard wear first, It FOUND new hard wear (not CD-ROM)I instilled it.
AMP-8151 Hyper Transport AGP3.0 Graphic Tunnel.
I don't know what it is but should not have instilled. Now I don't have a mouse or key board can't get past password window.
Later will try to uninstall in self mode.
Right now my circulating pump on HEATING system is acting up.will fix it first.
Thinks for reply. eilselThis should be interesting... I clicked in-still mew hard wear first

Is this for real? I gotta see this computer with a circulating pump and heating system! Quote

I gotta see this computer with a circulating pump and heating system!

Ok, BRONI... I just have to say it...

What the [email protected]%# is that? hahahaThis is a computer with a circulating pump and heating system....LOLYa got me buddy - LOL.Ha Ha! Didn't say computer had a pump. Just that I though my heat came before my computer. But working on bouth of them.
Thinks guys.What version of Windows? Shouldn't we start with some facts like that and what happened PRIOR to all of this?I have Windows Xp Pro
Prower supply spiked by prower co. Toke my hhd w/ XP out and put it in this Gateway unit after doing this CD-ROM not listed.
WinAduit doesn't list CD-ROM eatherSpellcheck worked for your sig but it's broken in your posts... Quote from: eilsel on December 01, 2007, 02:37:39 PM

I have Windows Xp Pro
Prower supply spiked by prower co. Toke my hhd w/ XP out and put it in this Gateway unit after doing this CD-ROM not listed.
WinAduit doesn't list CD-ROM eather

This is difficult to read, but you say you took a hard drive with XP loaded on it and put it into another machine with a completely different motherboard and components and are having problems? That would not surprise me to start with.

Was this CD ROM in the damaged machine originaly? It may have been ruined there as WELL. If not are you sure it is working? Have you tried it in another machine? You could boot with a Linux Live CD and find out soon enough also. (www.knoppix.com)

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