I recently installed a Samsung CD-RW drive, which will not
be recognized at startup. The drive works perfectly, but
each time that I want to use it, I have to use the add
hardware wizard. At startup, the device doesn't appear
either on my computer, or in the device manager. This
really isn't a serious problem, but it's an amazing
annoyance, does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Hello,

This may solve your problem:
Check in your Bios, and make sure the Bios is configured to recognize and
enable the device. Check in the section of the BIOS that says Plug and Play
Bios (often in Boot Configuration ) and if this is set to On or Yes or
Enable, change it to Disable or Off or NO, which is the default. This may
seem counter-intutitive, but what you want to happen is for the BIOS to
recognize and configure the devices when using a Plug and Play operating
system like XP.

Let us know if this solves or does not soove the problem, so others on the
forum can learn .

Richard
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"Roland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:053501c38777$fff39f80$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I recently installed a Samsung CD-RW drive, which will not
> be recognized at startup. The drive works perfectly, but
> each time that I want to use it, I have to use the add
> hardware wizard. At startup, the device doesn't appear
> either on my computer, or in the device manager. This
> really isn't a serious problem, but it's an amazing
> annoyance, does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Thanks alot, that worked out perfectly, I shall remember
this technique.
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>This may solve your problem:
>Check in your Bios, and make sure the Bios is configured
to recognize and
>enable the device. Check in the section of the BIOS that
says Plug and Play
>Bios (often in Boot Configuration ) and if this is set to
On or Yes or
>Enable, change it to Disable or Off or NO, which is the
default. This may
>seem counter-intutitive, but what you want to happen is
for the BIOS to
>recognize and configure the devices when using a Plug and
Play operating
>system like XP.
>
>Let us know if this solves or does not soove the problem,
so others on the
>forum can learn .
>
>Richard
>--------------------------
>"Roland" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:053501c38777$fff39f80$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I recently installed a Samsung CD-RW drive, which will
not
>> be recognized at startup. The drive works perfectly,
but
>> each time that I want to use it, I have to use the add
>> hardware wizard. At startup, the device doesn't appear
>> either on my computer, or in the device manager. This
>> really isn't a serious problem, but it's an amazing
>> annoyance, does anyone have any idea what's going on?
>
>
>.
>