E-Machine Conflict

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Jason Chohan

I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC. Everything
was working alright until I applied all the Windows
Update. After I restarted my computer, my CD/R and DVD
drives stopped working. My device manager says that there
are driver conflicts and and disabled these drives. I am
almsot certain that Windows Update applied a patch that
caused this conflict although I do not know which patch
caused it.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated


Jason Chohan
 
Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives, remove
them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with the
correct drivers.


| I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC. Everything
| was working alright until I applied all the Windows
| Update. After I restarted my computer, my CD/R and DVD
| drives stopped working. My device manager says that there
| are driver conflicts and and disabled these drives. I am
| almsot certain that Windows Update applied a patch that
| caused this conflict although I do not know which patch
| caused it.
|
| Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
|
|
| Jason Chohan
 
Jim said:
Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives, remove
them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with the
correct drivers.
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Oh no they won't, Jimmy! You're forgetting that the system under discussion
is an eMachines - the hardware equivalent of AOHELL. Nothing is
straightforward where eMachines are concerned!
 
Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend?


| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > Open device manager, select the CD-OR and DVD drives,
remove
| > them. Then reboot and they should be reinstalled with
the
| > correct drivers.
|
| Oh no they won't, Jimmy! You're forgetting that the system
under discussion
| is an eMachines - the hardware equivalent of AOHELL.
Nothing is
| straightforward where eMachines are concerned!
|
|
 
Jason said:
I recently purchased an 5 series E-Machine PC.
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Why?! OK, I know exactly why - price. But did you stop to ask yourself why
it was so cheap? Did you go online and find out what others were saying
about them?! No you did not. Believe me, this is only the start of your
long, arduous, tedious journey with your eMachines.

Have fun!
 
Jim said:
Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend?
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I apologise, Jim, I meant no disrespect (I respect you greatly). I've no
idea. All I meant was that emachines are SOBs when it comes to things like
that.
 
Jimmy is a SUV is a joke, no offense was taken.
Most mfg'rs use some off the shelf components, including
motherboards. But they make changes to the BIOS as well as
using cheapest available parts. Some make actual changes to
the hardware. I have the first Windows PC that I bought, a
HP 6465 433 Celeron that uses an ASUS MEVBM mobo. I was
going to use the mobo manual to set the FSB to 100 and reset
the CPU 500 MHz. But HP had used some flush cutting nippers
to cut the header pins so the jumpers did not exist. Newer
mobo now generally use software (BIOS) to control such
things.

If you have an eMachine and the mobo was a commercially
available model, you could update the BIOS with a standard
BIOS, but then the eMachine software/restore media would not
work.


| Jim Macklin wrote:
| > Jimmy is a SUV. What fix do you recommend?
|
| I apologise, Jim, I meant no disrespect (I respect you
greatly). I've no
| idea. All I meant was that emachines are SOBs when it
comes to things like
| that.
|
|
 
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