optical drives disappeared

[ted demen]

wtf?

i installed a ati tv-tuner card and it screwed up my optical drives!
windows is not recognizing either the dvdrom nor the dvdrw!
its acting as if theyre not even there!

please help! any advice is appreciated
thanx

[ted demen]

ok nevermind.

solution is here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730

[ted demen]

:(

ok.... the above method did not work afterall.

i followed the instructions exactly and deleted the upper and lower filters.
then uninstalled the existing drivers drivers (in control panel) just like the instructions said to do.

however upon restarting the computer the drivers did not re-install like the instructions said that they would.

i tried manually installing the drivers (control panel / add hardware) but windows gives me this message:
"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing (code 39)"

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and everytime i uninstall the "bad" drivers, they simply reinstall themselves almost immedietaly afterwards!

this is so frustrating...i thought it would be a quick fix but its turning into a nightmare