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both dvd drives have vanished from bios and my computer
Hi there all Ive scoured the internet to find the solution to my problem and ive ran out of solutions to my problem so i though id try the proffesional and worldly wise people here at vista forums so here goes... i recently updated my vista to service pack 2 x64 which installed perfectly fine with no hangs or any visible errors. after the machine restarted one of my dvd drives was missing but it recognised the other which worked fine in burning and playing my CD/DVDs. so i restrted my pc once more just to see if that may re-jog the system and it did both of my dvd drives were both visible so i though great no problems there. went to bed shutdown my computer. the next day i started it up as normal but noticed on the screen where its says " press del to run bios " or something like screen appeared it stayed on for a lot longer than normal i normally blink and its gone but it stayed on the screen for approx 2mins then proceeded to start up as normal. checked my computer and this time they had both vanished. ran all my virus checkers even checked the screen where you can update the drivers but nothing gone. i then restarted my computer again this time pressing del to check the bios.for my drives it found one so exited carried on loading up checked again and sure enough there was one found and again checked it to see if it worked and yes it burnt/played cd's and dvd's. i then uninstalled the service pack to see if the would change the situation but it didnt.. it now either recognises both none or one of the drives whenever it feels like it, even sometimes whilst both are showing after being on the computer a while one will disapear. ive tried looking for the upper or lower filters that apprantley can cause a problem but they dont even appear and reading on another forum they say if you cant see them then that isnt the casue of the problem. i havent installed any new software at all it seems to be when i installed service pack two that this all started. possibly a coincidence but it doesnt seem that way. both dvd burners are brand new pratically only about 2months old and as i say when they show they work perfectly. sorry for the long spiel but i though more info is better than less. any help would be very very very much appreciated thank you very much in advance vista home premium 64bit intel core 2 quad cpu q9550 ASUS 2.83GH 8.00 GB RAM -- jigger13 |
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both dvd drives have vanished from bios and my computer
Additional: i also tried the micrsoft fix as stateded on there website but that didnt help but it did mess up my itunes -- jigger13 |
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both dvd drives have vanished from bios and my computer
Which one of many Microsoft fix did you try?
-- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "jigger13" wrote in message ... Additional: i also tried the micrsoft fix as stateded on there website but that didnt help but it did mess up my itunes -- jigger13 |
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both dvd drives have vanished from bios and my computer
jigger13 wrote:
Additional: i also tried the micrsoft fix as stateded on there website but that didnt help but it did mess up my itunes That might be part of your problem, but it won't answer the question as to why your BIOS only sees one of the drives. I would suspect that you have a hardware problem to fix before worrying about Windows. Swap the connections on the two drives (and change the jumpers if they're IDE) and see what happens. |