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Shortly after installing Alcohol 120% my optical drivers are now showing up under an "Unknown" tab in device manager and consequently are not treated properly as CD-Rom drives anymore.
Thus EAC no longer finds them, copy protection scanners cant see them, and it's plain annoying.
I have tried changing IDE drivers, removing the drives from device manager, etc etc, but nothing works.
Another strange thing is that both the drives say they are in "Multiword DMA Mode 2" which I know sucks as the DVD drive supports UDMA Mode 3 and the writer supports UDMA mode 2.
Any ideas? I really want to rip my new "Jim's Big Ego" CD's
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Thus EAC no longer finds them, copy protection scanners cant see them, and it's plain annoying.
I have tried changing IDE drivers, removing the drives from device manager, etc etc, but nothing works.
Another strange thing is that both the drives say they are in "Multiword DMA Mode 2" which I know sucks as the DVD drive supports UDMA Mode 3 and the writer supports UDMA mode 2.
Any ideas? I really want to rip my new "Jim's Big Ego" CD's
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Already done it.
Was the first thing I did.
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It had something to do with the drivers that roxio or adaptec puts on the system. I do know that these drivers, if in existence, can interfere with drive recognition after installing another burning app.
Just look in x:\windows\system32\drivers for cd*.sys and if any are created by roxio or adaptec try renaming then rebooting to see what happens.
Even if you didn't put that trash on the system, I would check it anyways.
Uninstalling Alcohol, Nero 6 and Norton Systemworks didnt work either.
I hate computers.
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Also, it didn't stick anything in your autoexec.bat of config.sys files, did it? You might also use RegCleaner to make sure you got all of the fragments leftover after the uninstallation of the programs.
Best O' Luck
Er.... how?
Nothing in Autoexec or config.sys, so that cant be it...
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Before you reboot, run Regedit and look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\IDE and delete any optical drives you see.
Do the same for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\PCIIDE\IDEChannel.
Then got to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE and look for Alcohol 120%, Nero, etc and make sure they are cleared out of the registry.
It would be a good idea to set a restore point, and/or backup your registry first!
Then reboot and see if you've got it.
Good luck man! :smiles:
Thats Windows 2000 only, the keys dont exist in XP.
Prof, I have already deleted the entire controler before. but I will try it with the registry this time too.
NS
So that didn't help =/
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I don't use system restore, because In the past, I found that the only problems system restore would ever actually fix, were ones I could easily do myself.
I doubt restoring would help this.
Anyway, I reinstalled Alcohol, and even though the drives still have the wrong device manager icon, they are now listed as CD-Roms, but, they are both still stuck in Multiword DMA mode 2 =/
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One more time, no multi-word in front, it is only DMA, Multi-word in front is Ultra equivalent. Microsoft-speak.
Also, for UDMA 3-5, some devices like to have an 80 conductor cable on newer and faster boards. Like DVDs and HDs. Conversely, some CD-RWs and most CD-R drives like 40 conductor cable. If putting DVD on same cable, try an 80 conductor cable and see what happens especially with the CD-RW or CD-R. Both my CD-RW and my CD-R on both machines live on 80 conductor ROUND cables now, a couple of CD-Rs I have run into and some CD-RWs HATE that with a passion, controller embedded on device goes intermittently semi-nuts until put back on its old style cable.
John.
Multi-Word DMA is Multi-Word DMA and Ultra DMA is Ultra DMA which is why you will see drives specced with both, also shown here.
Drives only need to be on an 80pin cable if they run at ATA66 or higher, 33 and below only a 40pin cable is needed. But the 80pin cable is backwards compatable with 33 and below.
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Way to stick with it!