CD/DVD player not showing in device manager

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CD/DVD player not showing in device manager

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simonelks View Member Profile	Mar 10 2008, 03:00 PM Post #1
New Member Posts: 1 OS: XP	Hi I have a Packard Bell Easy Note. Last month my CD/DVD player stopped showing in"My Computer" and in device manager had a yellow traingle by it. Someone installed a program called error expert on my computer and that fixed it. Today my cd/DVD player is not showing on "My Computer" nor in the device manager. How do I fix it? After reding other similar topics I have been into the BIOS bypressing F2 at the start up and it shows IDE Primary St9301SA which I assume is my C drive IDE Secondary Disabled. I have not done anything else. Hope this helps This post has been edited by simonelks: Mar 10 2008, 03:21 PM

Neil Jones View Member Profile	Mar 10 2008, 03:48 PM Post #2
Member 5k Posts: 5,648 From: UK OS: Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3	If there is no option in the BIOS to toggle auto-detection of the IDE Secondary, then your CD unit looks like it's died. If the BIOS cannot see a drive or device, nothing else in the computer will either.

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