Thanks for the suggestion, but no, I've checked everything on the
motherboard, and it's all secure.
In researching this problem I came across another forum thread
discussing a similar problem. In that thread, somebody suggested that
Roxio can comandeer/knock out the firewire port. I found that
interesting because a few months ago, I upgraded my 2005 eTrust
Antivirus to 2009 CA Security Suite. Prior to this, my computer used to
freeze up for about 5 minutes at startup. Now it starts up nice and
quickly each time, but I get a message telling me that DirectCD (by
Roxio) has been shut down due to a driver conflict. It gives me an URL
where I can download a patch to fix this, but the URL looks like it
hasn't been active for ages.
The really weird thing is that my computer has never had DirectCD, or
any other Roxio product on it (to my knowledge). I have consulted dozens
of websites trying to figure out where this Roxio software is. I have
searched *ALL* the nooks and crannies of my hard drive where remnants of
Roxio stuff can supposedly reside - there is no trace of it. So why am I
getting this error message on every startup?
My guess is that it's some other driver conflict that XP is mistakenly
blaming on DirectCD. Does anyone know of any way I can learn any more
about the cause of these error messages? Is there some kind of system
log I can consult?
I am now very interested in tracking down the cause of these errors, as
the last time I used my firewire port was before these errors started
popping up.
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