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Geek Culture / Problems with my cd rom drive. Please Help!

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alex 1337
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:11
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Hey everybody,
Recently a cd jammed in my cd rom drive and I could not open it anymore. Everytime I restarted windows, the cd drive would try to boot windows off the cd and this caused me to open my computer and to disconnect the drive for a short period of time. I finally got the cd out of the drive and I then connected the drive back to the computer. However, now Windows does not recognize the drive as ever being connected and I don't know how to add the drive to Windows again. I don't have a cd for the drive and I am not sure what kind of drive it is. It just came with my HP A1020N computer. If anybody knows whats wrong, please help.

Thanks in Advanced.
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FINN MAN
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:21 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2006 04:28
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Well to start with you are using a HP(sorry, I hate HP)

Does the cd rom drive show up in device manager?

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alex 1337
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:24
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No its not listed there.
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:28
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Also are you certain you hooked it back up right, did you accidently change the jumper config? Also check if it shows up in the bios?

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alex 1337
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:44
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I am pretty sure everything is hooked up right. Whats a bios?
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:46 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2006 04:50
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if the cdrom is stuck in, without any software resolution, remove the drive and in the front is a tiny hole. get a strong paper clip, and poke the clip gently and firmly at the end and it will eject the disk.

this page has decent info for most drive layouts
look at hole 5
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-42471

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alex 1337
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 04:51
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Yeah, thats what I did to remove the cd. I already did that. But now, windows does not recognize that there is a cd drive connected
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 05:00 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2006 05:20
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your manufacturer driver list is here.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=459880?=en&os=228
there are firmware updates to some types of drives
there appears to be a diagnostic as well.

your manufacturer has a link about the bios
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=459880&os=228?=en&docname=bph07110

some machines its f2
some its f10
yours appears to be F1
if it is busted then they even have a link for replacing it.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&cc=ca&dlc=en&product=459880?=en&docname=bph07164

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 05:08 Edited at: 3rd Jul 2006 05:09
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if the power and data cables are all hooked back up, is the boot process seeing the drive? (Turn off the stupid HP graphic screen, so you can see the bios messages) Did you disconnect the data cable then put it back backwards? Theres 40 pins, cable pin1 needs to line up with the connector pin 1 - red stripe on data ribbon cable, marking on drive cable connector port - line them up.

If all is connected and win isnt recognizing the drive it may be blorkt. Does the drive power up and spin up when the pc is booting?

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alex 1337
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2006 06:14
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I disconnected the drive again and connected it back in and now everything works. Thanks everybody for the help. I greatly appreciate it.
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