Before making a driver or hardware question...

[awdark]

In attempt to make figuring out what the heck is wrong with your computer easier, I came up with this. Run Device Manager Run: devmgmt.msc Alternative is Control Panel, System, Hardware Tab, Device Manager. Look for problem devices If there is an exclamation point like this then there is a driver or hardware conflict... I have one of each here. Double click the problem device... As you can see, this one says "This device cannot find enough free resources that it can use. (Code 12)" want to get technical? Its probably a conflict in IRQ or onboard competing with the third party card. So another piece of hardware is preventing it from working. How do you get it to work? You would probably have to go to the BIOS to go and disable similar hardware. In this case, joystick port of my motherboard. Double clicking the other device... This one is just missing drivers. See the "Reinstall Driver" button? Click it, choose yes and let it try to find it. However, if that option doesn't exist... its okay. The second tab lets you uninstall driver, roll back drivers and all that stuff. I clicked the "Update Driver" here. Choose "Yes, this time only" next next next... and hope it installs it. If it doesn't or the one it finds doesn't sound right, then go back to that screen and choose "No, not this time" Next, "Install from a list or specific location" and you should get a screen like this Check that the box "Include this location in the search:" is checked and click browse. I am telling you to click browse with the ASSUMPTION that you have found the drivers and have installed them... so browse to where you think they were installed. About drivers... Most drivers that you can double click and install would be automatically found by windows and you can just use the Update Driver option. Drivers as part of a program package would often put the drivers within the install directory of the program. Then there are the simple drivers that come as a zip or rar file, those let you just extract them to the desktop or somewhere and just point the Browse directory to where you extracted the drivers. Drivers typically come with a bunch of DLL and INF files, they also often have Windows XP and Windows 98 folders and stuff like that for different versions of windows. Just chose the one you run. Where to get the drivers... IF you have the CD I would still recomend that you go to the website to obtain the newest drivers. New drivers often fix weird problems that can't be explained. How do you find those drivers? Well, I would hope you know a bit about your computer or what you put in. Like that Visa Smart Card reader I have an exclamation point on, I know thats part of my keyboard. But where can I find those drivers? I have no idea... Google "GCR432 Driver" and wala! Drive won't read a disk If your drive won't read, try another disk... Heck try one of each type.. AOL CD, CDR, CDRW, DVD movie, DVD-R, DVD+R. Still nothing? Want to blame drivers? Sure. No problem. Run Device Manger. Find your drives.. figure out which is the pain in the butt drive. Uninstall the stupid thing Reboot. Windows will find it back and hopefully fix itself. If it doesn't, a new DVD burner is only $35 away. I hope this will be helpful. Otherwise oh well lol. annikey recomends the use of Everest, which can be found here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html Sisoft Sandra is also useful http://www.sisoftware.net/ just get the freeware one and it can be really helpful in hardware idnetificaiton. It should list what hardware you have and help with the driver search.

[boka]

awesome work awdark, i smell a sticky...

this should save having to give the same response to half the threads in troubleshooting

[elizabeth]

thanks for the info and i'll try it for my computer.

[Guest Mr.Dimples]

when I start that up theres no quotation mark anywhere...confusing...dunno y my cam doesnt work

I only unplugged it...shouldnt it work wen I re-plug it bak? apparently it doesnt...sigh

[awdark]

when I start that up theres no quotation mark anywhere...confusing...dunno y my cam doesnt work

I only unplugged it...shouldnt it work wen I re-plug it bak? apparently it doesnt...sigh

for you, go to image or usb section and search for your camera. Right click and uninstall the drivers.

[chaegyeong]

my cd driver can read cdr n dvd but it cannot detect blank discs.. which means i can't burn anything cos the 'there is no blank disc in the drive. please insert a blank disc' message keeps appearing. the same thing happens with my external dvd rewriter except the message is now 'drive D:/ is not accessible'. what does that mean?

[Guest erniehkwon]

That's a problem with Windows drivers or new hardware. Some devices are not recognized until the manufacturer's software drivers are loaded.

[chaegyeong]

so what do i do now? manufacturer's software driver, is it the cd that accompanies the external drive? i got a cd manual with the external driver and there's a newer version of nero. i've installed it. so are u saying that i can't drop and drag the files but must use nero everytime i wanna use the external drive?

about the cd driver, the one that's already installed in my computer when i bought it, it used to work. up til last week. is it due to the same reason? just happens with windows drivers

[awdark]

I dont recall the fix for that, but im pretty sure its a windows problem and not a problem with the drivers for the drive.

[Guest swtamy83]

hmm........i tried doing that but i still can't hear anything from my computer.

[Guest angele0487]

well i went to device manager but under drives, i tried looking for the d drive but its missing.

so, how do i get it back?

do i need to install a program or something?

[awdark]

No, you shouldn't need to install anything, it should just show up under DVD/CDROM drives as the brand not as the drive letter.

[Guest ___cee]

So I accidentally deleted a program off of my computer because I didn't know what it was and I was running low on space...and turns out, it's my sound program? And I tried this thing out...there was an exclamation point under "Other devices" --> "Multimedia Audio Controller." Then I tried reinstalling it, and it said it couldn't find the necessary software to reinstall it. I guess I need a CD-ROM...but I don't have one. I don't even know what it is that I deleted. Can you help me?

[awdark]

Download Sisoft sandra http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir...;langx=en&a

use that to find out what drivers you need. If it doesn't make sence, pm me the system info.

[awdark]

O_oa how you dug it up I dunno... but I shall try to help.

So click hardware

Hopefully this will give LOTs of info about your sound card... if it doesn't look useful, copy and paste it anyways.

then for any "cant find driver" "dont know what to get" issues

[Guest SophiaSan]

i freaking love you.

thanks a bunch!

[Guest don'tpan!c]

Thank you so much for this! It helped a whole lot.

[Guest lido0LmisSundersto0D]

so..I just deleted my drive..is it meanta come bakk?

[Guest beautifulfriend]

mine doesn't have a DVD/CDROM drive...does that mean i need to send my laptop to the manufacturer and get it fixed by them personally, or is there a way to fix it at home?

[awdark]

so..I just deleted my drive..is it meanta come bakk?

I certainly hope it all came back after you restarted your computer... read below if you it doesnt work >_<

mine doesn't have a DVD/CDROM drive...does that mean i need to send my laptop to the manufacturer and get it fixed by them personally, or is there a way to fix it at home?

Does it physically not have the drive or does it simply not show up in the device manager?

If it doesnt show up, then someone help me here I don't know. I can tell you that probability has it that its all software issues. I can tell you that it isn't an issue with the driver for the drive itself. You may have to reinstall your chipset drivers (aka motherboard drivers) to force a redetection of your drives.

Otherwise, go to the device manager and uninstall the Secondary IDE controller. Should be under the IDE/SCSI controllers. Again, its one of those things windows will reinstall when you restart.