DVD drive no longer recognized

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I am running Vista Ultimate on an AMD Athlon 64-bit processor 3200+ with 1GB
RAM, and a Radeon X600.
After having no issues for about a week with clean install, suddenly I get
the message "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The
driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" for my DVD burner, which also
has a second hard drive as a slave. I had been able to use both, and
installed different programs from CD prior to its disappearance 5 days ago.
Any ideas??
 
Hie
i had the same problem with sony dru-800a.
Windows needed drivers for this device.
I changed the IDE wire and vista installed successfull ?!? Too long ? bad
connector ?
dunno, after exchange, it was done

regards
 
I think there is a major problem with an update that corrupted all AMD based
64 bit machines. Mine worked fine until both cd (external ) and DVD (SATA)
stopped working. A search for drivers says the most current ones are
installed. I got an new IDE based DVD Burner and it is also not recognized. I
luckly have a dual boot set up and XP works twice as fast as Vista 64. I have
a dual core MSI X2 with dual Invida Cards and 4 gigs of ram and 5 hard
Drives. My Vista score is only 4.2 as the Video Cards are not high end as I
run three monitors for photo editing. Everything is working under the Device
Manager on XP but under Vista 64 the CD/DVD Devices are recognized but say
the driver is corrupt. As a Microsoft stock holder I am very disapointed at
the rough quality of Vista. I have sent letters to all involved but no one
has responded. I am afraid to try to reformatt with Vista 32 (This is legal
under your sofware end user agreement) I have the XP install on a seperate
Drive. I put it and Ubantiu 64 on first and Vista 64 on its own drive. The
Vista changes the MBR to dual boot. I do not want to lose the xp set up as
numerous activations of software are required, Charles L. Mims
PS we got about 20 extra XP Disks for eork as Vista does not support our
Terminal Emualation Program for Reynolds and Reynolds. The Ubuntu setup
works very nicly and all devices are recognized.
 
Very interesting - My AMD 64 bit system lost access to its IDE DVD drives
last week (~ 11/20/2007). I went back a couple of days and did a system
restore. It worked and I breathed a sigh of relief ... except a few days
later they dropped offline again and the computer will only work in SAFE
mode. When I run REPAIR from my Vista system CD it asks if I have recently
added a audio or video device. I have not added anything in the last month.
I am really stuck. I get the ' Drivers are the most recent ' message also. I
have been running this system for many months and do not look forward to
re-installling all my applications again. What steps would you follow to try
to get it running again without doing a complete OS reload?
 
I fixed All my problems by dumping 64 bit Vista and reinstalling from a 32
Disk. Microsoft was not happy but allowed via a Phone activation with the 64
bit install numbers, once I promised I wiped the disk. Once I did that all my
apps ran faster and I could use some legacy programs that failed to load
under 64 bit Vista. My online Virus protection started working under Vista
32. I run two Nvidia cards and I had to go to Nvidia for a good driver. I
have three monitors and they somtimes get confused as to what monitoe is
primary. I can now use OpenOffice 2.3, Gimp and several other open source
programs. I loat some memory access as I had 4 gig of memorya and only 3.3 is
recognized.
cardog an old guy still learinig.
We use Open Office 2.3 at my place of work as Office 2007 does not work
with Reynolds and Reynolds. I find Open Office and Thunderbird work fine
under almost all operating systems. We bought many XP install numbers as
Vista does not work at all with Reynolds and Reynolds and the terminal
emulation program needed to access the mainframe.
My X2 Machine works fine with 64 bit Ubuntu Linux. Just a thought
 
I think I need to make a trip to the manufacturers' websites to get clean
drivers for my various devices. Microsoft tech support has been helpful with
resolving most, not all, of my problems. I am still stuck in safe mode, but
at least it does boot to safe mode rather than hanging with a black screen!
 
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