brain fart

[n8dawg]

ok today is friday and my head isnt realy workin right but here is my problem

windows 2000
cd-rom in device manager has one of them lovely yellow excamation points
and it will not go away
open my computer and it is not there, it will not play audio or data.
thing i have done:
replaced drive
updated drivers
uninstaled reinstaled
updated drivers on ide controler
uninstalled reinstalled
did these in safe mode also
switched ide controler so that my hdd is master and cd-rom is slave
checked bios all ok in there it sees both hdd and cd-rom
checked my config.sys, everything looks good there same in autoexec.bat

if ya have any suggestions or if ya think i missed something let me know thanks

[futuretech]

Try going into computer management/removable storage/physical location/cd-rom/drives properties of the drive and check the box enable drive. There might be the option on the menu when you right click the drive in the right window to mount drive.

[Sly]

Check your cables could be a bad cable or backwards.. sometimes its the small things..

Just a thought!! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[n8dawg]

futuretech nice try but didnt work thanks thou

cables are fine thanks for pointing out the simple things. i need that once in awhile but not in this case

[futuretech]

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure plug and play has been started in
component services/ local services.