CD Rom has disappeared from system.

bocabill22 · 02-15-2006, 09:10 PM

Greetings Oh wise ones.....This troubled one comes seeking aid...

I have a home brew 2years old.. Biostar motherboard, AMD 1.2 Gig CPU, 40 Gig HD on drive C and a 20 Gig on drive D, 256 memory, CD rom, and am running
Win 98SE. System worked just fine since built. Two days ago noticed CD was
not working and has disappeared. Not under My Computer and not Under Device
Manager. Noticed that Primary and Secondary IDE controllers have got
Yellow Splats and so has PCI universal Serial Bus listed under Other Devices.

Under Performance, both Drive C and Drive D are using MS-DOS compatibility Mode file system.

These are several problems, but are set out as they may offer clues to the
CD problem, and they may be interrelated..
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
bocabill22

**hwm54112** · 02-15-2006, 10:07 PM

Your rite 3 issues, 2 probably related. The following will correct dos mod issue and probably cd issue. Post back with results

Uninstall and re-install ide controllers.

If that doesn't work:

Microsoft Article

bocabill22 · 02-16-2006, 02:14 PM

Thanks HWM54112. Your diagnosis was spot on. I went into the registry and
made the change as instructed in the MS article. That cleared up the IDE
controllers, but the Yellow splat is still on the PCI serial bus. Thanks again for
your high quality help... By the way...for future use, how do you uninstall and
re-install the IDE controllers?
Thanks again.

Bocabill22

mistabigshot · 02-16-2006, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bocabill22

=By the way...for future use, how do you uninstall and
re-install the IDE controllers?
Thanks again.

Bocabill22

Those drivers would be on the motherboard's manufacturers webpage, or on your motherboards drivers CD that came with it.

**hwm54112** · 02-17-2006, 02:25 AM

My apologies. I meant to include uninstalling the PCI serial bus drivers as well. Before you do, rite click on it, select properties. May tell you something, might generate an error code, or say nothing of value.

Generally, unless something indicates otherwise, uninstalling yellow splats is a first step. It's quick, corrects a whole lot of issues and windows handles the re-install automatically. Worst case scenario is the user may have to tell windows where to look

In device manager
Expand IDE controllers
Rite click on primary ide channels
Uninstall
Do same thing for secondary ide channels
Reboot

Usually, the windows generic drivers work. I've worked with a dozen different mobo's and don't recall ever needing a disk, but it's good to have the mobo drivers as per mistabigshot's post, just in case.

02-15-2006, 09:10 PM	#1 (permalink)
bocabill22 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3 OS: Win 98SE	CD Rom has disappeared from system. Greetings Oh wise ones.....This troubled one comes seeking aid... I have a home brew 2years old.. Biostar motherboard, AMD 1.2 Gig CPU, 40 Gig HD on drive C and a 20 Gig on drive D, 256 memory, CD rom, and am running Win 98SE. System worked just fine since built. Two days ago noticed CD was not working and has disappeared. Not under My Computer and not Under Device Manager. Noticed that Primary and Secondary IDE controllers have got Yellow Splats and so has PCI universal Serial Bus listed under Other Devices. Under Performance, both Drive C and Drive D are using MS-DOS compatibility Mode file system. These are several problems, but are set out as they may offer clues to the CD problem, and they may be interrelated.. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. bocabill22

02-16-2006, 02:14 PM	#3 (permalink)
bocabill22 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3 OS: Win 98SE	CD Rom has disappeared from system Thanks HWM54112. Your diagnosis was spot on. I went into the registry and made the change as instructed in the MS article. That cleared up the IDE controllers, but the Yellow splat is still on the PCI serial bus. Thanks again for your high quality help... By the way...for future use, how do you uninstall and re-install the IDE controllers? Thanks again. Bocabill22

02-15-2006, 10:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
hwm54112 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,233 OS: WINXP	Your rite 3 issues, 2 probably related. The following will correct dos mod issue and probably cd issue. Post back with results Uninstall and re-install ide controllers. If that doesn't work: Microsoft Article

02-17-2006, 02:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
hwm54112 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 2,233 OS: WINXP	My apologies. I meant to include uninstalling the PCI serial bus drivers as well. Before you do, rite click on it, select properties. May tell you something, might generate an error code, or say nothing of value. Generally, unless something indicates otherwise, uninstalling yellow splats is a first step. It's quick, corrects a whole lot of issues and windows handles the re-install automatically. Worst case scenario is the user may have to tell windows where to look In device manager Expand IDE controllers Rite click on primary ide channels Uninstall Do same thing for secondary ide channels Reboot Usually, the windows generic drivers work. I've worked with a dozen different mobo's and don't recall ever needing a disk, but it's good to have the mobo drivers as per mistabigshot's post, just in case.