No CD/DVD Access

In the past couple of weeks I've been running Spyware and Anti-Virus programs to try and clean-up my system.
As a result, a system file became Missing/Corrupt and so I did an XP repair.

Also, for some reason my computer locks up on the inital BIOS Boot and I have to hit the Reset to get it to ReBoot and then it sometimes Reboots once or twice before it finally gets to the Window Stratup Screen.

I was told that I may need to replace the battery on my MB (ASUS A7V), so I did that, but still the same problem.

Now the reason for this POST.

Since I did the two things mentioned above, I don't know what happen, but Windows does not see the CD and DVD devices I have.

I check the Device Mgr and the DVD/CD Rom Drives it shows "AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device ". I have Liteon CD and DVD devices.

Now on my MB there are two different IDE connections: Primary/Secondary Ultra ATA100/IDE and Primary/Secondary IDE.

My CD and DVD are connected to the Secondary IDE. If I change their connector to the Secondary Ultra ATA100/IDE connector, then they show up in the Device Mgr.

This wasn't a problem until now.
What did I do and what do I need to do to correct this???

 

How many drives do you have ? 2 or 1?

 

3.

I have C: & D: on Primary Ultra ATA100 and E: on Secondary Ultra ATA100. That's why I have my CD and DVD on the Secondary IDE.

 

Correction - how many physical drives you have - both hard disks and cd/dvd roms?

 

5 Physical Drivers - C: (40mg), D: 120mg), E: (40mg), CD and DVD

3 Maxtor's and 2 Liteon

 

how are they chained up on the machine? what's on what IDE etc.

this is almost surely an IDE config issue in bios

i'm not familiar w/ that MB but .... it's docs hold the answer ... u've got more than 4 IDE devices and one of the chains is setup as raid/sata/non-standard

 

BeetleBailey,

As per info available about your motherboard, your motherboard can support 8 IDE drives (wow - that's the first time I have seen such a thing).

It has 2 IDE chips - one is normal ATA-66 and the other one is Promise ATA-100. [http://www.dansdata.com/a7v.htm].

Now since this confusion about your motherboard is clear, we can all start understanding & answering your question.

 

It seems that your ATA-66 Primary/Secondary IDE has been disabled in BIOS. Just take a peek inside the BIOS & enable them.

 

Primary Ultra ATA - C: (M) and E: (S)
Secondary Ultra ATA - D: (M)
Primary IDE - (Nothing)
Secondary IDE - DVD/CD-RW (SOHW-1633S) (M) CD-RW (LTR-40125S) (S)

 

Great News!!!

GREAT News!!!

1. I Removed and Replaced my processor and moved my Memory Sticks around (swapped them around) and now my system boots right up.

2. I went into Device Manager and Right Clicked on some items (IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers; Pri. IDE Channel; Sec. IDE Channel, VIA Bus Master IDE Controller) and clicked on "Update Driver" and both the Pri./Sec. IDE Channel drivers did. Next thing I know I have my CD and DVD drives up and running - Praise the Lord!!!

Now I have in the Device Manager a couple of "Unknown Devices" popping up under "Other Devices ". How do I remedy that? I've not added any devices.