cd drive will spin but won't load

[vdub]

Hey

Recently my pc crashed, not badly, but that annoying hard drive click would come up. it wouldn't find the hd, only my cd drives. with the help of linux, i have it up and running, did a defrag about 20 times. But now, it won't play cd's (both my cd drive and my dvd drive will spin the disc but won't load it) In "my computer" the drives are not pictured. I thought maybe my computer wasn't even be able to detect them, so I went into the bios and I saw, that in fact, they were their - first device was my hd, second device my cd drive, third device my dvd drive. Also I used hwinfo, and sandrasi, and both showed them. I tried turning off the pc, unplugging the power to both drivers, then boot again, nothing happened. I went into device mananger, and this is where I got confused. You know when you get that exclamation point when the driver is missing for a certain hardware? Well for the cd & dvd drives, there was an exclamation point, but underneath it a pic of a hd or something. Im pretty sure a cd drive doesn't require have drivers, so I don't know what that sign is trying to tell me =/

thx in advance

 

[oscaryu1]

Where was the ! point exactly?

Do the OD's POST?

 

[vdub]

Where was the ! point exactly?

Do the OD's POST?

What is post? 0.o

 

[johnb35]

OD's is short for optical drives, meaning cdrom drives.

uninstall that device in device manager, reboot and see if the driver gets installed properly.

 

[vdub]

OD's is short for optical drives, meaning cdrom drives.

uninstall that device in device manager, reboot and see if the driver gets installed properly.

ok, i got it. post as in if it showed up. but ya, i tried that, i uninstalled it, then when i restarted it, it said found new hardware (asus cdw 4321as) but then agian, it would just spin the cd, but once agian...not load

 

[johnb35]

Does the yellow exclamation point still show up in device manager for the cdrom?

 

[vdub]

Does the yellow exclamation point still show up in device manager for the cdrom?

yes *sigh*

 

[quiktek]

could be a driver issue, no?? Maybe when your computer crashed it corrupted the drivers.

 

[vdub]

could be a driver issue, no?? Maybe when your computer crashed it corrupted the drivers.

i thought cd drive didn't have drivers though? i mean i searched for drivers for op drives on asus website but noting came up.. =/

 

[quiktek]

I checked asus.com and they don't even sell OD's

 

[vdub]

I checked asus.com and they don't even sell OD's

well, look at the pic i posted earlier. it says asus, so im using its asus lol

 

[quiktek]

well, look at the pic i posted earlier. it says asus, so im using its asus lol

lol

 

[johnb35]

i just did a search on that drive and have came up with a bunch of people having problems with it after doing a fresh install. They had the same problem with the driver not being installed correctly. Let me see if i can find a link that they have successfully fixed it. give me a few minutes

 

[johnb35]

try doing what the poster named draino said in his last post on this page. You have to delete the upper and lower filters.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/archive/index.php?t-69608.html

Hopefully that works for you.

 

[vdub]

try doing what the poster named draino said in his last post on this page. You have to delete the upper and lower filters.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/archive/index.php?t-69608.html

Hopefully that works for you.

it worked, i really appreciate it, and thanks to everyone else for their help. i think ive fallen in love with this forum

 

[quiktek]

I love teamwork lol

 

[johnb35]

it worked, i really appreciate it, and thanks to everyone else for their help. i think ive fallen in love with this forum

I'm glad it worked for you. Sometimes that trick don't work for people.