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Add and Remove Hardware doesn't work, says This device cannot start.
Worked fine before, not fiddled with any wires.
Ideas?
I've no idea how to install drivers for it.
How do I find out what model my CD/RW drive is?
It says Gigabyte on it.
Gigabyte 8ST 800
If it's onboard find out if your motherboard is VIA or Nforce, if it's an add-in card check the manufactuer website for the drives. No sound icon in the system tray generally means the drives are not installed or have somehow not installed properly.
VIA
[URL] http://www.via.com.tw [/URL]
Nforce
[URL] http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp [/URL]
Hope this helps.
And I don't think my CD/RW or DVD drives are working either.
Oh well.
Multimedia?
C-Media AC97 Audio Device
MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device
Standard Game Port
I'm tired.
I'll check back in the morning. Maybe I'll be more fresh and have some new ideas if all this doesn't work.
> System Tray is the thing to the right of the taskbar, right?
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> It's got what I said above, as well as the time.
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> Which is pretty damn late...
I was talking about in Control Panel...
...But check the stuff below.
If any device in Device Manager is fitted but not operating "properly" - usually because of driver problems - then it places a big question mark in front of it. The fact that elsewher on your system it shows devices as "working properly" does not mean they are. I suspect that your computer has "lost" its sound card driver and that you will need to put it in again - do you have the sound card driver disk and /or your motherbosrd disk available?
If you don't know what card you have then go onto the inernet and download something like "Belarc Advisor" and run it - it will give you all the info you need of what's on your compuet and the program security keys. It can be found at
[URL]www.belarc.com/free_download.html[/URL]