HP 9100+ CD/R-W Win XP :(

CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
edited August 2003 in Hardware
Two days ago XP took a serious disliking to my CD Writer and in the divice manager it simply says that Winblows failed to install the Divice Driver. Go Figure! It's detected right in the BIOS and in windows but doesnt work. Havent been able to locate drivers for the Rom. help would be nice, even an Idea as to WHY it stopped working would be helpful right about now..

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2003
    ...if you can find an old Win98 boot floppy, choose "Boot with CD-ROM supprt, then test the drive in DOS mode. If you can read the contents of a disc this way you'll have determined that the drive is still good, and that it's purely a Windows problem.

    Then boot up in Safe Mode and delete the drive from device manager. Delete the IDE channel it's on, too. Reboot and let Windows find it. Check the IDE channel to see if DMA is enabled.

    I haven't seen this so much lately, but years ago some viruses would goof-up your IDE drivers. Do you have the latest virus definitions, etc?


    Prof
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Yea, I have all the Virus updateblah blah blah stuff. That boot to DOS would work if my HDD wasnt formatted to NTFS..... The safe mode option MIGHT work, dunno I'll have to try it out. My IDE Cable COULD be bad, but I doubt that since it's detected just doesnt work. The Problem is that Windows figures that the current drivers are no longer good for it and there are no other ones!
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2003
    ...doesn't matter. Boot from a DOS floppy w/ cdrom drivers (like a win98 startup disk, etc). Your hard drive won't matter - it wouldn't even need to be there at all. You will be testing the cdrom drive using the drivers on the boot floppy. This will eliminate any problem with Windows. If the drive still doesn't work, then you have a hardware problem. If the drive shows up using the DOS diskette and you are able to read the contents (try the dir command) then you have isolated the problem to Windows. Sometimes if a drive (or cable, or IDE channel) goes bad Windows still knows that something is attached, but can't figure out what driver to load for it.

    Once you have isolated the problem to be either hardware, or Windows, we can go from there.

    Good Luck!


    Prof
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Creep,

    Try this driver pack:

    http://www2.driverguide.com/cgi/download.php?uploads13/40524/recordnow_ver35bf_enu.exe

    If you need to login, pm me for details.

    Mac
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    CD Rom is bootable which means the hardware works.
    Those drivers didnt work.

    Oh yea, Pro, I run a floppyless computer.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2003
    Creep said
    CD Rom is bootable which means the hardware works.
    Those drivers didnt work.

    Oh yea, Pro, I run a floppyless computer.

    I think my next computer is going to be floppyless, too. I'm trying to get all my little utilities copied to a bootable CD.
    I did find some drivers for the 9100 series here. They are from HP.

    Did you try to uninstall it in Safe Mode? This will at least force XP to try and find a new driver when you reboot. If you think the driver has gotten corrupted, you might try uninstalling the drive, deleting the (corrupt) driver, then run Windows Update to see if good ol' MS can find something XP will be happy with.

    At least you know the drive is not dead. Have you checked the DMA status?


    Prof
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2003
    What burning software are you using?


    Prof
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    My 9100+ only worked for burning in Roxio burning software(Nero would burn at about 4X, burn ONE CD-R and lock the drive invalidly when I tried another unless I gave it 15 min to finish burning during which Nero was totally clueless). I ended up with a TDK in one box, a Dragonwriter in another box and the HP thing ended up in a kid's machine who had XP and it ran fine until the cable went bad-- changed cable, worked fine. Also, is there any chance the drive got hooked to a different connector on a cable or that it got hooked to the other IDE cable?? If not, you might try a new IDE cable on it.
    My 9100+ was also the reason I bought a CD-ROM drive laser lense cleaning CD as about every 15 burns it needed cleaning cycle-- and I was using not-so-cheap Verbatim blanks.
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Those files HP calls "drivers" don't do shiznit. The problem started after I removed a plugin for Nero, which worked fine it just added a fake CDRom and I was trying to get rid of it, soo, now XP doesn't like my CDRom anymore. Go Figure.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited July 2003
    ...reinstalling Nero. If that doesn't work, try uninstalling Nero completely, clean out any references to it in the registry, then reinstall it.

    I know Nero is very picky about some of the ASPI stuff. This probably doesn't apply to your situation, but I know lots of people have installed another cd-burning program (in addition to Nero) only to have none of them work...


    Prof

    PS - Nice Folding! You're that close to a major milestone!:fold::fold::fold::fold::fold:
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Thanks for the F@H reference, I would have broke 10,000 if I didn't stop for about 4 months....... i've used Nero AND the HP Record now stuff together without a problem. I'll just reinstall Nero and see if that works. I'd hate to have to fdisk just because Winblows is being.........Winblows!
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Reinstalling nero worked thanks for the help


    :rockon:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited August 2003
    Glad to hear things worked out! :thumbsup:


    Prof
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