pavillion 7955 CD/DVD disappearance

[Stevet5711]

My D: and E: drives with a CD-RW and DVD have disappeared from the menu. The
device manager shows them with an exclamation point in a yellow circle. When
updating/troubleshooting, it says the driver does not work because it is
corrupted. Re-installing says it has the same version. What do you do!?

[Zermut]

On 11 Nov 2003 01:23:06 GMT, stevet5711@aol.com (Stevet5711) wrote:
My D: and E: drives with a CD-RW and DVD have disappeared from the menu. Thedevice manager shows them with an exclamation point in a yellow circle. Whenupdating/troubleshooting, it says the driver does not work because it iscorrupted. Re-installing says it has the same version. What do you do!?


Get rid of AOL and get a REAL ISP. When you installed AOL's crappy
software, it turned a perfectly working computer into a pile of crap
and caused problems with your CDRW and DVD drives disappearing.

AOL's software is known to change settings on computers and make
computers unstable and crash.

Zermut

[Ben Myers]

If you are running Windows XPee, you can take advantage of one of its few good
features, the ability to roll back the system software to a previous known good
oprational state. Of course, the rollback itself is a patch to cover up the
problem which has existed forever with Micro$oft operating systems, namely, why
the hardware drivers get messed up to begin with.

You might also go into the motherboard BIOS and reset the CMOS and Non-Volatile
RAM (NVRAM) data, aka ESCD. Sometimes the Windows PnP data gets corrupted,
causing all manner of wierd problems.

Finally, if the system is more than 2 years old, replace the C2032 3v Lithium
battery on the motherboard... Ben Myers

On 11 Nov 2003 01:23:06 GMT, stevet5711@aol.com (Stevet5711) wrote:
My D: and E: drives with a CD-RW and DVD have disappeared from the menu. Thedevice manager shows them with an exclamation point in a yellow circle. Whenupdating/troubleshooting, it says the driver does not work because it iscorrupted. Re-installing says it has the same version. What do you do!?