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 Jan 6 2005, 11:50 AM
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My CD writer and DVD drives have been playing up for a while now the won't register whether there is a CD in them. They come back with the message insert CD into Drive D:, or a screen is displayed as if the disk were empty. If I try to get to them through a programme it says I do not have access and to see the administrator. Unfortunately thats me and I've not got a clue.
This wasn't such problem as it was intermittent but I just attatched a new pci 3 USB card with another three in the floppy disk bay. Now I get the same message please insert disk into drive if I try to use the CD, floppy, or plug my USB stick into the USB ports. The device manager says all of these devices are functioning propperly. Dan |
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rastamandan Drives can't be accessed Jan 6 2005, 11:50 AM
Grinler This happens every time or only once in a while? Jan 6 2005, 11:35 PM rastamandan It is happeneing every time, the drives seem to wo... Jan 7 2005, 11:02 AM Grinler Is this a brand name computer or custom built? Jan 7 2005, 07:29 PM rastamandan The pc was custom built by a company for me about ... Jan 8 2005, 06:32 AM Grinler I am wondering if you may need to try updating the... Jan 8 2005, 07:36 PM rastamandan Not sure how to find out what make the board is, I... Jan 9 2005, 12:53 PM rastamandan Also managed to read this from the back of the mot... Jan 9 2005, 01:24 PM Leurgy Your Motherboard would seem to be a MSI K7T Turbo ... Jan 9 2005, 01:25 PM rastamandan The pisture of the board in that link looks the sa... Jan 9 2005, 01:49 PM rastamandan How do I update the Bois for my motherboard then?
... Jan 11 2005, 04:45 AM Leurgy That PCI controller is a modem. If you are not usi... Jan 11 2005, 08:00 AM rastamandan Uninstalled each drive and then re-installed but t... Jan 12 2005, 11:05 AM Leurgy Need to know about that Flash drive. Exactly what ... Jan 12 2005, 12:36 PM rastamandan If you mean my USB stick i'm unsure of the mak... Jan 14 2005, 08:13 AM rastamandan I'm pretty sure that this is my exact motherbo... Jan 14 2005, 08:20 AM Leurgy On that page you linked to, in the top left it say... Jan 14 2005, 09:20 AM rastamandan To clarify, if a cd, floppy disc or usb device are... Jan 15 2005, 02:17 PM Leurgy Go to the flashbios site, click on "bios Q... Jan 15 2005, 06:07 PM rastamandan I have already downloaded all the available update... Jan 17 2005, 08:26 AM Leurgy This may be problematic because you are having pro... Jan 17 2005, 08:52 AM rastamandan The floppy drive works fine as long as the disk is... Jan 18 2005, 02:08 PM Leurgy
So you ran that and created a bootable Floppy?
... Jan 18 2005, 04:44 PM rastamandan Belarc says that the processor is:
Board: MICRO-ST... Jan 18 2005, 06:09 PM Leurgy
Switch your boot drive to A and boot with it. Jan 18 2005, 06:22 PM rastamandan I changed the bios settings in the startup to boot... Jan 19 2005, 12:18 PM Leurgy Well, thats interesting as all get out. There is a... Jan 19 2005, 12:50 PM rastamandan Scratch the last post, just turned my pc back on a... Jan 19 2005, 01:53 PM rastamandan Have downloaded "K7T Turbo(MS-6330 Ver3.0)... Jan 19 2005, 03:30 PM Leurgy When you opened the .rar file you extracted the bi... Jan 19 2005, 04:56 PM Leurgy I just did a test and that is not going to work wi... Jan 19 2005, 05:16 PM rastamandan I have installed the files from the WINRAR file in... Jan 20 2005, 08:56 AM Leurgy
Your right. The way they write it is wrong in Do... Jan 20 2005, 09:11 AM rastamandan OK then here goes nothing, or maybe just my mother... Jan 20 2005, 12:02 PM Leurgy If the flash doesn't change anything I've ... Jan 20 2005, 12:15 PM rastamandan I treid th windows 98 disc etc.
Booted from the d... Jan 21 2005, 08:44 AM Leurgy That boot disk loads your CD Drive as R: and calls... Jan 21 2005, 08:59 AM rastamandan I tried to run it from the C: but it was having no... Jan 22 2005, 12:07 PM Leurgy
Which 98 disc are you refering to? If you mean t... Jan 22 2005, 12:46 PM rastamandan Tried that, nothing happened it said "bad com... Jan 22 2005, 02:28 PM Leurgy You need to put the path in like in my other post:... Jan 22 2005, 02:57 PM rastamandan Seemed to accept the path=C:\ part but then n... Jan 23 2005, 01:12 PM Leurgy Try path=A:\;C:\;C:\Windows;C:... Jan 23 2005, 05:15 PM rastamandan Accepted the path= part but then just said "B... Jan 24 2005, 02:56 PM Leurgy Then you are doing something wrong as Windows won... Jan 24 2005, 05:58 PM Leurgy double posted
can a Mod delete this? Jan 24 2005, 06:00 PM rastamandan Typed sys C\:
returned messsage "Parame... Jan 26 2005, 01:29 PM Leurgy
Its supposed to be sys C:\ or sys C: not sy... Jan 26 2005, 02:35 PM rastamandan Sorry about that, I did type the sys C: command in... Jan 27 2005, 07:19 AM Leurgy We have seen that your drives work when you have s... Jan 27 2005, 08:16 AM rastamandan Tried the sufggestion on there of removing some fi... Jan 27 2005, 05:27 PM Leurgy What is the new one going to be? What is the drive... Jan 27 2005, 08:47 PM rastamandan I'm going to get a Western Digital 80Gb 8mb ca... Jan 28 2005, 05:49 AM Leurgy Hard drives have jumpers on them so you can put tw... Jan 28 2005, 09:06 AM rastamandan In most cases you'll want to use NTFS. It... Jan 28 2005, 11:11 AM Leurgy If you are running Fat32 now and you go to NTFS on... Jan 28 2005, 11:39 AM rastamandan When I access the second drive what will happen as... Jan 31 2005, 06:21 AM Leurgy
Yes if the new drive is Fat32.
Doesn't re... Jan 31 2005, 06:32 AM vasch Hi Guys,
I have been reading the lasty 4 pages, a... Jan 31 2005, 03:46 PM Leurgy Hi vasch and welcome to BC. Thanks for posting.
Y... Jan 31 2005, 04:05 PM rastamandan Hello Vasch
I found while looking at a link from ... Jan 31 2005, 06:00 PM Leurgy Thats great Dan but don't stop posting now. A ... Jan 31 2005, 06:13 PM vasch Hi there,
a long night again yesterday.. some fri... Feb 1 2005, 03:11 AM rastamandan It like the Truman Show, everyone wanting to tune ... Feb 1 2005, 08:58 AM Leurgy
Access won't be a problem at all. I have thr... Feb 1 2005, 09:36 AM rastamandan Oh Dear
Got my new hard dirve and RAM today.
Rem... Feb 3 2005, 01:59 PM rastamandan OK re-check, found the link below.
http://support... Feb 3 2005, 02:33 PM rastamandan Coming Live to you from my new XP install.
First ... Feb 3 2005, 03:03 PM Leurgy It will be accessable after it is partitioned and ... Feb 3 2005, 06:27 PM rastamandan The drive didn't come with disk!
I have f... Feb 3 2005, 07:20 PM Leurgy Boot with that 98 boot disk if you still have it a... Feb 3 2005, 07:54 PM rastamandan whilst tryin to sort the partition I discovered th... Feb 4 2005, 12:44 PM Leurgy Re-install with NTFS on the new drive and make sur... Feb 4 2005, 03:25 PM rastamandan :thumbsup:
Since my last post I managed to get X... Feb 5 2005, 02:48 PM Leurgy Thats great news Dan, glad everything worked out t... Feb 5 2005, 06:31 PM
rastamandan I have XP SP2 firewall active and AVG antivirus on... Feb 5 2005, 07:42 PM  |
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