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Sony CRX230E CD-RW drive problem

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by metabaron, May 18, 2005.

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  1. metabaron

    metabaron Member

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    Ok, I've uninstalled the CD drive and the IDE controllers in Device Manager to no avail.

    I've swapped drives, put in a completely different CD-RW drive and still THE SAME PROBLEM!!

    My PC seem to no longer want to recognize ANY CD drives! It's crazy! I've never had a problem like this before.

    What am I missing? Any have any more ideas?

    And thanks for all of the help so far. It is appreciated!
     
    metabaron, May 28, 2005
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  2. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    have you tried both ide ports on motherboard?? check motherboard site for a bios update for your motherboard.
     
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  3. metabaron

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    What do you mean?

    There is only one port for the cable for the CD drive and one for the hard drive and one for the floppy drive.

    That's all I have. Did you mean those?
     
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    you have 2 ide ports on your motherboard that allows you to hook up 4 ide drives. the floppy is not an ide drive as it uses a 34 pin cable whereas an ide uses a 40pin cable.
     
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  5. metabaron

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    Right, I do have the two IDE ports. One has the hard drive plugged into it and the other has the CD-RW drive plugged into it.

    What are you suggesting that I do? Can I use one cable and one port for both the hard drive and the CD-RW drive? On one cable?
     
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    yes with the hd jumpered as master & the the cdrw drive jumpered as slave on same cable
     
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    ddp!

    I haven't tried that! It's a great idea because I've had no problems with my hard drive.

    I'll try that tomorrow!
     
    metabaron, May 28, 2005
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    teach & learn
     
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    I am having the EXACT same problem (same drive, etc...) with the CRX320E. I am going to call Sony soon to see if they can help. but in the meantime I will try the suggestions on this board.
     
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  10. metabaron

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    Glad I'm not the only one. Please share whatever info they tell you.
     
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    I just found this link which seems to describe what happened to me (I did uninstall the old EasyCD Creater program)

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060&Product=winxp

    I have yet to try this since I am currently at work. Also I haven't called Sony yet. I'm a little worried they will not help me since my drive was bought from Newegg.com and I dont know if it is still warrentied. Let me know what happens if you run that fix. I will try it later tonight.
     
    andrew018, May 30, 2005
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    The previously posted link work perfectly for me! My drive is now recognized and working properly! I will post back if any problems occur.
     
    andrew018, May 30, 2005
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    That did it for me too!!

    Thanks a lot for sharing, andrew018!!

    I've already burned several discs with it and it's working like it's old self again!

    Funny thing is, I never had Easy CD creator on my PC, but that totally worked for me.

    Phew!! THANKS A LOT!!

    Can you tell how happy I am? :^D
     
    metabaron, May 30, 2005
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