JimS
18th June 2007, 15:16
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Compaq desktop pc.
My 2 optical drives used to work fine.
Then I had a crash and had to reinstall Windoz XP.
This was a temp install using my son's copy of XP.
Optical drives worked fine.
I don't want to use his XP, unless I have to.
Then Compaq shipped XP to me, I reinstalled.
This was not a reformat and install type of install.
Just a quick overlay type install as I want to keep some data.
Stripped a lot of commercial junk out of it.
Both optical drives were not fully recognized.
I can see them in bios.
No show in My Computer.
No show in Windoz Explorer.
Yellow ? in Device Mgr.
- Scan of new hw - no change.
- Reinstall drivers - no change.
Control Panel - Add Hardware - get msg for both optical drives:
- "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware,
- but cannot find the hardware device (Code 41)
Prabably need to reinstall the Compaq XP and
be more careful about stripping out the junk.
What do you think??
Tested with Linux live CDs.
I'm not expert with Linux yet.
I have 3-4 more projects to convert to Linux,
then I'll be free of Windoz.
Hallaluya!! Free at last!
This old dawg is still learning.
Rebooted with Knoppix CD.
Optical drives are there and one is working the live CD.
Rebooted with Linux Mint CD.
Same as with Knoppix. Looks good.
So it seems the issue is with Windoz, not the hardware.
What to do?
Appreciate your suggestions.
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Compaq desktop pc.
My 2 optical drives used to work fine.
Then I had a crash and had to reinstall Windoz XP.
This was a temp install using my son's copy of XP.
Optical drives worked fine.
I don't want to use his XP, unless I have to.
Then Compaq shipped XP to me, I reinstalled.
This was not a reformat and install type of install.
Just a quick overlay type install as I want to keep some data.
Stripped a lot of commercial junk out of it.
Both optical drives were not fully recognized.
I can see them in bios.
No show in My Computer.
No show in Windoz Explorer.
Yellow ? in Device Mgr.
- Scan of new hw - no change.
- Reinstall drivers - no change.
Control Panel - Add Hardware - get msg for both optical drives:
- "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware,
- but cannot find the hardware device (Code 41)
Prabably need to reinstall the Compaq XP and
be more careful about stripping out the junk.
What do you think??
Tested with Linux live CDs.
I'm not expert with Linux yet.
I have 3-4 more projects to convert to Linux,
then I'll be free of Windoz.
Hallaluya!! Free at last!
This old dawg is still learning.
Rebooted with Knoppix CD.
Optical drives are there and one is working the live CD.
Rebooted with Linux Mint CD.
Same as with Knoppix. Looks good.
So it seems the issue is with Windoz, not the hardware.
What to do?
Appreciate your suggestions.
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