Help Needed!

Help Needed!

For some reason my pc has decided it can not find my DVD writer or my DVD drive.

In the device manager I get this message "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)"

I have tried unplugging them uninstalling and then plugging them in and reinstalling them, new ide cable, swapping the ide port on the motherboard and system restore to before they went off, but still the same message

Any ideas on how to fix this?

probably knackered any way you can try it in another pc?

both to go at once?

maybe, try them in another pc to make sure if there ok, then you know its not them and can move on, pc fuckage is all about narrowing down the search.

just sounds like the windows drivers have borked, try do a roll back on them

hes reinstalled the drivers, and it didn't do anything

yeah somnetimes if u have your jumpers set wrong your pc can work for fine ages then decided to "not see" the device

cable select is from remmys - do it properly - helps u keep track.

disconnect both. set 1 as master. plug in and test it. repeat for the other drive.

what sop u have 1 master and 1 slave or 1 CS?

tried each drive with all 3 jummper settings and still no joy :think:

have u tried them on both IDE controllers? put 1 on your hard drive controller... try every possible combination