No cd after install

[Greg Krawczyk]

I just did a clean install using win2000. Now my cd reader will not work.

How can I fix this. I have tried uninstalling then restarting win2000. It
sees the cd and loads a device driver. I then reboot with no success.

Help.

Thanks

 

[sgopus]

Are you logging onto the system using administrator??
You may have device restrictions, allowing only the admin
access to the device.

 

[Greg Krawczyk]

I am logged in as system administrator.

Are you logging onto the system using administrator??
You may have device restrictions, allowing only the admin
access to the device.

 

[George Hester]

Is your CD-ROM showing in Device Manager? Does it show working fine there?

 

[sgopus]

I've heard of this, usually it happens after application
of sp4... read past post in this newsgroup re this
subject..

 

[Greg Krawczyk]

No. The CD has a yellow point by it.

Is your CD-ROM showing in Device Manager? Does it show working fine there?

 

[Greg Krawczyk]

In the device manager below the yellow point the following.

Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)

How can my registry be corrupted when I just installed win2000. The only
thing I did was install all win2000 updates from microsoft.

 

[George Hester]

Well that is your issue. Do a detect system change and see if you can get your CD-ROM recognized. If not then I think it's time to buy a different one. They aren't all that expensive. Get a Windows 2000 compliant one. Windows 2000 even knows the manufacturer of mine. But you might try this. Add New Hardware. Then you pick the device you want to search for. It would be best to have drivers for the CD-ROM. This really shouldn't be necessary but if your CD-ROM is not Windows 2000 compliant (like it requires loading drivers in autoexec.bat or config.sys) I would just get one that is.

 

[Greg Krawczyk]

I was able to reinstall win2000. I installed all patches except sp4.

For some reason my computer and win2000 sp4 don't get along.

Thanks for the suggestions
Well that is your issue. Do a detect system change and see if you can get
your CD-ROM recognized. If not then I think it's time to buy a different
one. They aren't all that expensive. Get a Windows 2000 compliant one.
Windows 2000 even knows the manufacturer of mine. But you might try this.
Add New Hardware. Then you pick the device you want to search for. It
would be best to have drivers for the CD-ROM. This really shouldn't be
necessary but if your CD-ROM is not Windows 2000 compliant (like it requires
loading drivers in autoexec.bat or config.sys) I would just get one that is.

 

[George Hester]

Well I'd be surprised if installing SP4 kills your CD-ROM drive. That's a new one. But you have a working CD-ROM drive now and without SP4 you are really fine. I see no reason to install SP4 at this time. A reason may occur when there are hotfixes that REQUIRE SP4 but as of yet I have not come accross one.

I really see nothing in SP4 that cannot be fixed\achieved with SP3 and associated hotfixes at this time December 23, 2003.

 

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Dowload and install W2K driver for this device from Manufacturer site.

Doesen't solve the problem, then flash the BIOS. I did it to solve similar
prob.

Still doesn't work, you will have to flash the CD ROM firmware.

Good luck