DVD Drive goes missing after installing RAMdrivers(detailed)

[jujube]

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Please bear with my detailed explanation of my problem

I bought a bulk version of this LG DVD writer 4040B sometime ago. It supports DVD-RAM but it my bulk version didnt come with the drivers. So

then i decided to try it out. This is after i already had success using the writer. I looked around this forum and found RAM

drivers which other users have used sucessfully. The last part of the installation was 'DETECTING DVD RAM DRIVE' or something to that effect.

I had to reboot and my Drive disappeared after that!

My Drives are:

C: and D: - partitioned HDDs
E: CDROM (Slave Sec.)
F: missing DVD Drive (Master Sec.)

OS: WIN2KPRO SP4


I am able to power up the Drive e.g eject. And BIOS detects it. In Disk Management, the missing Drive is not listed in 'Logical Drives'.

However it is listed in ' Problem Devices ' (error code 19). When i do a diagnostics, the missing Drive appears alongside my CDROM Drive in

SCSI Devices.

These are the number of things I have tried to no effect:

1) Unplugging the cables and uninstalling my secondary IDE. and reboot(twice), the drive comes back momentarily. however the drive will be

'installed' then it disappears again, even before i had a chance to restart to changes to take effect.

2) Changing the drivers of my IDE Ata/Atapi Controllers from INTEL to Standard

3) Looked for the registry values to remove Upper and Lower Filters as advised by Roxio but no such values

4) Switched around the jumpers and Master/Slave switches in various combinations

5) Completely removing the RAM Drivers (what i did instantly)

I have posted my problem in other forums too but still unable to get an effective solution. Would reinstalling the OS be a surefire way?

athough that is surely a last resort for me. I hope someone can suggest other ideas for my problem. Please help!

Thanks for reading

[smellycanine]

Hey, your detailed description is helpful. I had a problem installing my same drive during a WIndows XP install.

My drives ended up as scsi drives, but they shouldnt have been. I could still see the drive and use it but I couldnt ever finish the burn without an error. I eventually reinstalled XP, because it was sucj a new install anyway.

I am using an AMD board that splits AMD north bridge and the Via southbridge chipsets. The onboard raid/IDE controller has drivers that are seperate still. I didnt install them while I was installing windows but after, and it screwed my drives' locations up terribly, giving them all scsi addresses. I reinstalled them during the windows installation.

I dont think your drives should have scsi addresses, but I am not familiar with INtel motherboards.

I have no idea how closely that relates to your issue, and have no idea how to fix it, but the Scsi addressing looks like a good clue.

[smellycanine]

Have you had any luck with your problem?