Right, erm, invisible CD drive or something?

[I_got_a_mohawk]

I just noticed today for some reason i have a "new" CD/DVD drive in my computer, well, my computer thinks I do, but i dont.

It's showing up in the hardware manager as this :

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AVX CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device

Device Type : DVD/CD-ROM drives

Manufacturer : (Standard CD-ROM drives)

Location : Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0

Status : This device is working properly.

If you are having problems with this device, click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter.

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I'm newish to XP and have no fucking idea how this got here or what it is, but also today, my puter crashed, and wouldnt start again, until I took a dvd out of the dvd drive, then it worked fine, crashed again, and would, again, only start up after I took out the dvd.

Any ideas ? ? ?

[WarmToast]

Might be a software drive, like, the sort you can load CD images (ISO files) into and kid on their real cd's. Not to sure tho. Install any fancy new software recently>

[Rebelius]

if it annoys you, just set it to not use the device and it wont show up. I think mine has one that isn't real...

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AVX CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device

Device Type : DVD/CD-ROM drives

Manufacturer : (Standard CD-ROM drives)

Location : Bus Number 0, Target ID 0, LUN 0

Status : This device is disabled. (Code 22)

Click Enable Device to enable this device.
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Exactly the same as yours... strange, I never really thought twice about where it came from, just disabled it.


Does the DVD thing happen for all DVDs or just one?
I have no idea what it is though.

[Andy Pandy]

Originally Posted by WarmToast

Might be a software drive...

Yeah, most likely it will be a virtual drive of some sort. Nero, Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools use these kind of thing.

OR

Someone broke into your house in the dead of night and installed a new CD/DVD drive in your PC.

[Rebelius]

strange that i have the same one though... I have Nero and Alcohol 120 but i think it was there befrore them... not sure.

[I_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Rebelius

strange that i have the same one though... I have Nero and Alcohol 120 but i think it was there befrore them... not sure.

Same here, but i used them before and the drive wasnt there, i disabled it, and then it was enabled again when i started up again.


And it happened with my Akira dvd, i put it in and it crashed powerDVD, then crashed the puter, and i tried again, and it was the Akira DVD again, so my pc doesnt seem to like it , and it isnt even a copy



Oh, and a new thing, for some reason winamp wont play video files, media player does, but winamp doesnt, it only opens a black window of the right dimensions, and you can hear the sound, but no pic, then a few seconds later winamp crashes, uninstalled, reinstalled, same problem , damn xp

[Rainbow_brite]

"Click Enable Device to enable this device."


thats fucking crazy

[I_got_a_mohawk]

Originally Posted by Rainbow_brite

"Click Enable Device to enable this device."


thats fucking crazy

Yup, XP does like to point out retardedly what things "should" do