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Suddenly my cd-rom (cdrw) is not recognized by my system. I have
a Dell Dimension L733r with WindowsMe. I have tried several
things already, but nothing has helped:
I ran Ad-Aware, SpyBot, CWshredder, Stinger and AVG (all updated
yesterday) but nothing was found. I had this happen once before,
but found some malware then, deleted it and system recognized
cdrom again. This time there is a problem with extremely slow
loading of Windows also. When I hit esc and watch as things load
it is very slow loading system memory. It steps thru it 4 mb at a
time up to 384mb, then the keyboard and mouse are recognized and
the usb. Then it sits there for a long time (about 3 or 4 minutes)
before the hard drive shows up. Then Windows loads normally, but
the cdrom drive never loads. Device manager did not show it in
full mode, but in safe mode it was there. I removed it thinking
it would reinstall upon reboot, but it didn't. This is a 5 yr old
computer, but I have updated it quite a bit so here is what I have
now:
80 gig Western Digital hard drive (only 1 partition)
nVidia Geforce4 mx440 video adapter
cmedia CMI8738 /c3dx audio device
Westell dsl modem from Bellsouth (dsl lite)
Benq FP731 flat panel monitor
Original LG cdrw
What do you suggest as my next step? Does this sound like the
hard drive is about to go? maybe the motherboard? or just some
malware I haven't found yet?
Thanks,
Janice
Suddenly my cd-rom (cdrw) is not recognized by my system. I have
a Dell Dimension L733r with WindowsMe. I have tried several
things already, but nothing has helped:
I ran Ad-Aware, SpyBot, CWshredder, Stinger and AVG (all updated
yesterday) but nothing was found. I had this happen once before,
but found some malware then, deleted it and system recognized
cdrom again. This time there is a problem with extremely slow
loading of Windows also. When I hit esc and watch as things load
it is very slow loading system memory. It steps thru it 4 mb at a
time up to 384mb, then the keyboard and mouse are recognized and
the usb. Then it sits there for a long time (about 3 or 4 minutes)
before the hard drive shows up. Then Windows loads normally, but
the cdrom drive never loads. Device manager did not show it in
full mode, but in safe mode it was there. I removed it thinking
it would reinstall upon reboot, but it didn't. This is a 5 yr old
computer, but I have updated it quite a bit so here is what I have
now:
80 gig Western Digital hard drive (only 1 partition)
nVidia Geforce4 mx440 video adapter
cmedia CMI8738 /c3dx audio device
Westell dsl modem from Bellsouth (dsl lite)
Benq FP731 flat panel monitor
Original LG cdrw
What do you suggest as my next step? Does this sound like the
hard drive is about to go? maybe the motherboard? or just some
malware I haven't found yet?
Thanks,
Janice