Hi, all!

All of a sudden, my PC doesn't recognize my Sony CD-RW drive. This just happened a day or two ago. I'm running a PCChips board, WIN XP Pro Corporate w/ SP2, Athlon AMD 2200 processor, 368MB of RAM, and I use Nero for burning data and VCDs.

I've went to Device Manager and I've seen the yellow exclamation point on it, so the first thing that I did was uninstall it and restart my PC. When I restarted, the New Hardware balloon opened and said that it found the drive, but when I go to check it in Device Manager, it still has the yellow exclamation point beside it! Gah!

I then did a System Restore on the PC and it still didn't recognize the CD-RW drive. Didn't help at all.

I did scans and found no virus or spyware that could have messed this up.

I've opened the case and disconnected the cable and reconnected it. Restarted PC. Doesn't see it.

I changed the cable with another one that I had. Turned the PC back on. Doesn't see it.

It's not seeing it at all. How do I know that I'm having problems with the motherboard connection?

It does see a cd-rom drive in the bios, but it doesn't say this specific drive. It just says "CD-ROM drive".

When it boots up and it shows the boot up screen, it shows the CRX230E drive there.

Help? Thanks!

When I check the driver in Device Manager, it gives me a Code 39 error message saying that the driver isn't there ro corrupted.

No one?

No ideas?

i got the similar problem.
now my cdrw is recognized as a CDROM.
i wonder if i reinstall the windows, it may work.
but that is too much time.