re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do Monday, December 10, 2007 at 1:14 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by DEX (11819 messages posted) Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites Click Here It could be the MB has gone bad, ( controller) you will need to do a test or two. Put the rom on the same cable as the HD, Master/Slave setup. besure to set the jumpers right, then run your BIOS to see if it finds the Rom and the HD.. If so switch the cable on the MB to the 2nd cable pickup...(controller) then do the same thing... If you get a error, then you may have a bad MB If it works on both ports on the MB then you may have a software error in windows...if you uninstalled some software like Roxie it may have told windows that you don't have any Roms.. In that case you will need to down load a fix or rework the reg.file.. Are you a wood worker ?,if so Click Here On Monday, December 10, 2007 at 11:16 am, Brian McDaniel wrote: >I was able to open and run CD's just fine until recently. Now all of a sudden I can't >open any CD's. Whenever I try to open a CD in My Computer I just get "Please insert >a disk into drive D:". > >I tried reinstalling the drive. I tried switching the DVD drive with a CD drive that >I know works, but I get the same thing. I tried switching the IDE cable with the >hard drive. Using the IDE cable and secondary IDE channel that the optical drives >were on, the hard drive loads Windows just fine. So I know the problem is not the >cable or the IDE channel. I even tried updating the BIOS and still no dice. The CMOS >has no trouble finding the drives using Auto. It even finds the model number of the >drive. I tried to boot from a bootable CD (my Windows XP CD) and it won't boot. This >suggests to me that the problem is deeper than Windows. I'm using Windows 2000 Pro >and my motherboard is an MSI-6534 using a Pentium 4 (Williamette). Any ideas??? Is >my motherboard broken? I don't know what else to do. Written in response to: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Monday, December 10, 2007 at 11:16 am) Responses to this message: re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Monday, December 10, 2007 at 4:37 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 11:16 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 1:14 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 4:37 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 8:05 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 8:41 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Mon, Dec 10, 2007, 9:40 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Tue, Dec 11, 2007, 8:37 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 8:22 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 8:48 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Dec 12, 2007, 4:42 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Fri, Dec 14, 2007, 8:02 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (DEX: Fri, Dec 14, 2007, 8:55 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Sun, Dec 16, 2007, 9:18 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Florence Young: Tue, Jan 1, 2008, 4:40 pm) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Brian McDaniel: Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 6:34 am) re: DVD and CD drives won't work no matter what I do (Jerry: Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 7:22 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum