mattudland
Geek Trainee
Hi... not sure where to put this thread as it has spanned into some larger issues.
The usual:
HP computer with Windows XP, Celeron 800 Mhz with 512mb ram (old school).
A few weeks ago my CD burner stopped. The computer wouldn't even recognize it in "my computer" although it did show up in the device manager stating suddenly that the drivers could not be loaded. The CD drive is the TEAC CDW58E. So I purchased a new Memorex cd burner, and plugged it in correctly and the same issue was still there. It exists in Device Manager but not in My Computer.
With both drives I have tried right-clicking and going to "uninstall..." and reinstalling to no avail. Each time it says the driver is corrupt or cannot be loaded.
Upon giving up on this, I unplugged the new drive and shut down the PC. Then I re-plugged all of the internet devices and things (the cable modem through Cox is USB Terayon Cable Modem (NDIS 5)) and the modem seems to cause the computer to Blue Screen and die. The error message that shows up when the modem is plugged in (or worked on through Add Hardware) is: either Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) or the blue screen:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Technical information
Stop: 0x000000d1 (0xbb35e0b5, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8226202b).
It dumps the virtual memory onto the physical drive and then restarts. Upon restart, Windows suggests that I check the disk for consistency.
So I'm in a cycle, I have a PC with no working CDdrive, and no internet access. If I can get the CDdrive working, I can purge the system and do a system recovery from CD, but this computer is too old to have system recovery built on the machine.
Ideas - questions - comments are MOST WELCOME!
Thank
- Matt
The usual:
HP computer with Windows XP, Celeron 800 Mhz with 512mb ram (old school).
A few weeks ago my CD burner stopped. The computer wouldn't even recognize it in "my computer" although it did show up in the device manager stating suddenly that the drivers could not be loaded. The CD drive is the TEAC CDW58E. So I purchased a new Memorex cd burner, and plugged it in correctly and the same issue was still there. It exists in Device Manager but not in My Computer.
With both drives I have tried right-clicking and going to "uninstall..." and reinstalling to no avail. Each time it says the driver is corrupt or cannot be loaded.
Upon giving up on this, I unplugged the new drive and shut down the PC. Then I re-plugged all of the internet devices and things (the cable modem through Cox is USB Terayon Cable Modem (NDIS 5)) and the modem seems to cause the computer to Blue Screen and die. The error message that shows up when the modem is plugged in (or worked on through Add Hardware) is: either Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31) or the blue screen:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Technical information
Stop: 0x000000d1 (0xbb35e0b5, 0x00000002, 0x00000001, 0x8226202b).
It dumps the virtual memory onto the physical drive and then restarts. Upon restart, Windows suggests that I check the disk for consistency.
So I'm in a cycle, I have a PC with no working CDdrive, and no internet access. If I can get the CDdrive working, I can purge the system and do a system recovery from CD, but this computer is too old to have system recovery built on the machine.
Ideas - questions - comments are MOST WELCOME!
Thank
- Matt
