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June 4th, 2006, 09:56 AM
#1
emachine refuses to accept cd and dvd drivers
I have a emachine etower700. Well, it's not mine, thank God, but anyway, BIOS will acknowledge that I have my two roms installed,(sm308, and m241), but when mellenium edition starts up they suddenly don't exist anymore. I've been at this for hours and I am about to throw it out of my window. The roms are samsung by the way. One is a dvdrw combo and the other is just a plain old cd rom. I created a floppy that has the drives on it and it's supposed to have some sort of flash utility on it. Anyway, I install it, reboot it, and then still nothing. I've tried different roms out of my computer and I get the same result.This particular version of ME is about to go the way of the do do unless y'all can help. I'm going bonkers
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June 4th, 2006, 10:31 AM
#2
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CD-ROMs/DVD-ROM's do not require drivers. Windows has built in drivers to recognize Rom Drives. If those drives along with other drives are not recognized in Windows it could be a problem with the IDE controller and/or the IDE cable. Try changing the IDE cable. Either that or Windows is corrupt some how.
Can you boot to Dos Mode with CD-ROM support using a boot disk? If so see if the roms are picked up by the generic drivers. ANd if so will it read the discs?
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June 4th, 2006, 10:33 AM
#3
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My bet would be corruption in the windows system
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June 4th, 2006, 01:47 PM
#4
and the winner is.......
corruption in windows, come on down. thanks for the insight fellas. ALL I HAD to do was reinstall the hard disk drivers. You don't wanna know how long it took me either.
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June 4th, 2006, 06:04 PM
#5
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![Quote](images/misc/quote_icon.png) Originally Posted by wes
ALL I HAD to do was reinstall the hard disk drivers.
You must mean the IDE controller drivers. Cuz HardDrives don't need drivers either.
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June 4th, 2006, 08:31 PM
#6
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![Quote](images/misc/quote_icon.png) Originally Posted by wes
corruption in windows, come on down. thanks for the insight fellas. ALL I HAD to do was reinstall the hard disk drivers. You don't wanna know how long it took me either. ![Tongue](images/smilies/tongue.gif)
And thats pretty much what happens when they get "corrupted"
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