Hey guys, i am hoping to find a little help here. My CD-RW drive doesnt work. It is a HD-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8525B. It says in the device manager that there is a yellow exclaimation mark next to it. I have tried uninstalling it then reinstalling it, doesnt work. Just recently stopped working and i dont have a clue why. I have even tried updating drivers but it says nothing about finding one.. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.
Have you another PC so you can try the drive in? You may have a defective CDRW drive? Could be the IDE cable? Is it beeing detected in the BIOS?
I dont happen to have another PC. Is there anyway to check it in the PC i have now? By saying BIOS you mean exactly what?
Open up the case and check the cables. As Roscoe mentioned try the drive in another Computer. Try another device using the same cable and molex and jumper settings as you currently have set up. Is it set up as master, slave or cable select? How old is the drive? When did it stop working and what did you do recently hdw/sfw changes to your machine. For about 50 bucks you can buy a new DVD-RW drive. Reply back and let us know. Read this about the BIOS: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/BIOS.html
when you start the pc up, you get a list of option. F2 is typically the setup key; so when the computer boots, press it. that takes you into the bios. there should be devices listed in there somewhere (like the A drive, hard drive, cd-rom, etc.). see if your drive is listed there, first.
