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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
My HP Pavillion dv6150us does all of a sudden not recognize the CD/DVD
drive. I deleted the driver, re-installed it. Did not work. I went back to Windows XP Restore and restored it to 1/20/2007, when I bought the otherwise wonderful laptop. It still did not recognize the drive. In Device manager it shows the CD/DVD drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM but with a yellow exclamation mark in it. Uninstalling the driver does work, but the automatic re-install upon startup results in the same , no recognition under My Computer and yellow exclamation mark when looked at in Device manager. There is no newer driver on the HP website. When I got this laptop new 1 week ago all worked fine. What else can I do to regain my CD/DVD drive. Mechanically it seems to work, because upon start up or when I put a CD in it, I see the green light for a little while. Using Windows XP Media Center. |
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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
Is the drive recognized correctly by the BIOS? See if it works with another OS e.g. using a bootable DOS or Linux CD. Because it is only a week old you could probably take it back and exchange it for another one. Ritter197 wrote: My HP Pavillion dv6150us does all of a sudden not recognize the CD/DVD drive. I deleted the driver, re-installed it. Did not work. I went back to Windows XP Restore and restored it to 1/20/2007, when I bought the otherwise wonderful laptop. It still did not recognize the drive. In Device manager it shows the CD/DVD drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM but with a yellow exclamation mark in it. Uninstalling the driver does work, but the automatic re-install upon startup results in the same , no recognition under My Computer and yellow exclamation mark when looked at in Device manager. There is no newer driver on the HP website. When I got this laptop new 1 week ago all worked fine. What else can I do to regain my CD/DVD drive. Mechanically it seems to work, because upon start up or when I put a CD in it, I see the green light for a little while. Using Windows XP Media Center. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
"Ritter197" wrote in message news:xvIvh.3376$lk3.2599@trnddc04... My HP Pavillion dv6150us does all of a sudden not recognize the CD/DVD drive. I deleted the driver, re-installed it. Did not work. I went back to Windows XP Restore and restored it to 1/20/2007, when I bought the otherwise wonderful laptop. It still did not recognize the drive. In Device manager it shows the CD/DVD drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM but with a yellow exclamation mark in it. Uninstalling the driver does work, but the automatic re-install upon startup results in the same , no recognition under My Computer and yellow exclamation mark when looked at in Device manager. There is no newer driver on the HP website. When I got this laptop new 1 week ago all worked fine. What else can I do to regain my CD/DVD drive. Mechanically it seems to work, because upon start up or when I put a CD in it, I see the green light for a little while. Using Windows XP Media Center. In device manager, delete the IDE controller. Reboot and let XP reinstall it. If it's still not working take it in for a warranty repair. |
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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
I tried everything including hours with HP in India support to no avail.
I had to Restore the system, the way HP originally delivered it. (very easy F11 when starting up and it kept the application I had installed, but restored the Windows Media XP OS). THAT worked great and I have to watch now very carefully, what could have possibly caused the anoyance. I think it happened after Windows update of 57 items. "Neil Green" wrote in message ... "Ritter197" wrote in message news:xvIvh.3376$lk3.2599@trnddc04... My HP Pavillion dv6150us does all of a sudden not recognize the CD/DVD drive. I deleted the driver, re-installed it. Did not work. I went back to Windows XP Restore and restored it to 1/20/2007, when I bought the otherwise wonderful laptop. It still did not recognize the drive. In Device manager it shows the CD/DVD drive HL-DT-ST DVDRAM but with a yellow exclamation mark in it. Uninstalling the driver does work, but the automatic re-install upon startup results in the same , no recognition under My Computer and yellow exclamation mark when looked at in Device manager. There is no newer driver on the HP website. When I got this laptop new 1 week ago all worked fine. What else can I do to regain my CD/DVD drive. Mechanically it seems to work, because upon start up or when I put a CD in it, I see the green light for a little while. Using Windows XP Media Center. In device manager, delete the IDE controller. Reboot and let XP reinstall it. If it's still not working take it in for a warranty repair. |
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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
"Ritter197" wrote in message news:Bz5wh.8089$SE6.5411@trnddc03... I tried everything including hours with HP in India support to no avail. I had to Restore the system, the way HP originally delivered it. (very easy F11 when starting up and it kept the application I had installed, but restored the Windows Media XP OS). THAT worked great and I have to watch now very carefully, what could have possibly caused the anoyance. I think it happened after Windows update of 57 items. Some poorly written apps can cause that behaviour but at other times the cause remains a mystery. I've seen it more than once when both optical drives become inacessable, usually a reinstall of the IDE controller will fix it. It happened to me once when ripping a scratched CD, the program hung and I had to reset the PC then when it restarted I'd lost both the drives. If the same thing happens when you update windows next time remove updates one by one with add/remove programs and see if you can find out which one (if any) is causing the problem, but I doubt that Microsoft software would be the culprit, it's usually very well tested. |
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HP Pavillion dv6150 does not recognize CD/DVD
Thanks for the additional help and advice.
I will keep it in the back of my mind should it ever happen again. In 20 + years it never happened before, I should add though. Thanks again "Neil Green" wrote in message ... "Ritter197" wrote in message news:Bz5wh.8089$SE6.5411@trnddc03... I tried everything including hours with HP in India support to no avail. I had to Restore the system, the way HP originally delivered it. (very easy F11 when starting up and it kept the application I had installed, but restored the Windows Media XP OS). THAT worked great and I have to watch now very carefully, what could have possibly caused the anoyance. I think it happened after Windows update of 57 items. Some poorly written apps can cause that behaviour but at other times the cause remains a mystery. I've seen it more than once when both optical drives become inacessable, usually a reinstall of the IDE controller will fix it. It happened to me once when ripping a scratched CD, the program hung and I had to reset the PC then when it restarted I'd lost both the drives. If the same thing happens when you update windows next time remove updates one by one with add/remove programs and see if you can find out which one (if any) is causing the problem, but I doubt that Microsoft software would be the culprit, it's usually very well tested. |
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