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Greetings,
I have an IBM ThinkPad R40, 1.5 ghz Pentium M processor, Windows XP SP2.
Lately my CD rom has decided that it wants to randomly disappear and not load
at bootup. The drive is a ThinkPad CD-RW/DVD Combo IV Ultrabay 2000 Drive
manufactured by Hitachi-LG. It posts as an HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N. I get
the following error messages when it disappears.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: PlugPlayManager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12
Date: 2/28/2005
Time: 8:37:38 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BOYL1416-SULAW
Description:
The device 'HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N'
(IDE\CdRomHL-DT-ST_RW/DVD_GCC-4240N_______________C102____\5&3ccf215&1&0.0.0)
disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 2/28/2005
Time: 7:07:11 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BOYL1416-SULAW
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period.
On boot, while it doesn't recognize the drive, no errors are reported. I
have wiped/reformatted the hard drive and re-installed XP and XP SP2, removed
the upper/lower filters from the registry, flashed the BIOS and the Embedded
Controller Program with the latest updates, and installed the latest IBM
Power Management software.
Also, thinking it was the drive that was the problem, I replaced the orginal
drive that came with the computer (Same device class, just manufactured by
Matsushita-Panasonic) with a new one (the one that is causing problems). So
the drivers are fresh, and have been re-installed twice now, and I
uninstalled the old drive before installing the new one
The strange part of this is (as if it wasn't strange enough) that the drive
works perfectly fine. To make it re-appear, I just have to un-latch the eject
lever, and re-latch it, and windows recognizes it.
Does anyone out there have any idea what may be causing this? The computer
is only a year and a half old, so I am hoping that it isn't some form of
hardware (i.e. IDE or Motherboard) problem. Thanks for your help!
I have an IBM ThinkPad R40, 1.5 ghz Pentium M processor, Windows XP SP2.
Lately my CD rom has decided that it wants to randomly disappear and not load
at bootup. The drive is a ThinkPad CD-RW/DVD Combo IV Ultrabay 2000 Drive
manufactured by Hitachi-LG. It posts as an HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N. I get
the following error messages when it disappears.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: PlugPlayManager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12
Date: 2/28/2005
Time: 8:37:38 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BOYL1416-SULAW
Description:
The device 'HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N'
(IDE\CdRomHL-DT-ST_RW/DVD_GCC-4240N_______________C102____\5&3ccf215&1&0.0.0)
disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: atapi
Event Category: None
Event ID: 9
Date: 2/28/2005
Time: 7:07:11 AM
User: N/A
Computer: BOYL1416-SULAW
Description:
The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort1, did not respond within the timeout period.
On boot, while it doesn't recognize the drive, no errors are reported. I
have wiped/reformatted the hard drive and re-installed XP and XP SP2, removed
the upper/lower filters from the registry, flashed the BIOS and the Embedded
Controller Program with the latest updates, and installed the latest IBM
Power Management software.
Also, thinking it was the drive that was the problem, I replaced the orginal
drive that came with the computer (Same device class, just manufactured by
Matsushita-Panasonic) with a new one (the one that is causing problems). So
the drivers are fresh, and have been re-installed twice now, and I
uninstalled the old drive before installing the new one
The strange part of this is (as if it wasn't strange enough) that the drive
works perfectly fine. To make it re-appear, I just have to un-latch the eject
lever, and re-latch it, and windows recognizes it.
Does anyone out there have any idea what may be causing this? The computer
is only a year and a half old, so I am hoping that it isn't some form of
hardware (i.e. IDE or Motherboard) problem. Thanks for your help!