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guitarbloke   01-19-2006 at 03:34:26 PM

I don't have a DVD drive installed, however windows explorer and device manager both see one in addition to my CD drive. I've tried removing it from device manager but upon rebooting, it's back there again, it says it's a SCSI DVD device.

Anyone have any thoughts? It's XP with SP2 installed.

Thanks!

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pscowboy   01-19-2006 at 06:18:52 PM
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Try booting up in Safe Mode (F8 at start to bring up menu).

Go to Device Manager (right click My Computer - Properties - Hardware).

In the CD-Rom section, delete EVERYTHING in there.

Reboot.

We'll go from there. BTW, is there a SCSI controller in one of the slots?

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guitarbloke   01-20-2006 at 12:25:50 AM
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I'll give that a go, thanks! I don't have a SCSI controller at all which makes it stranger. This only started happening a few days ago (nothing new installed just before it started), I've been back to a restore point but no change :(

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site3op   01-20-2006 at 05:59:58 PM
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Are you running any kind of drive emulator for playing games, etc. off the HD instead of CD/DVD?

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guitarbloke   01-22-2006 at 02:33:57 AM
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Nope, nothing like that at all :( In Device Manager it shows a SCSI controller as well as the SCSI DVD drive, I have uninstalled the controller (although I don't physically have a SCSI controller!) and uninstalled the drive from device manager, after a reboot it was back again

Arrrgh! :(

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Zoron   01-23-2006 at 10:56:44 PM
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SATA controllers or other controllers than the ones integrated into the chipset of the motherboard can sometimes be displayed as SCSI devices. What exactly is the device called?

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mra   02-13-2006 at 07:48:33 PM
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hi i am now running in to the same problem you had,, nice to know it is not only me lol ,, did you ever solve that problem??

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mra   02-13-2006 at 07:50:20 PM
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hello ,, did you ever solve that problem,,? as this problem is a bit annoying lol

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