[SOLVED]Dvd-Rom driver doesn’t load
August 4th, 2016
I have some Lenovo G505 laptop at home and for the last 2 weeks it started to boot “really” slow.
It stays up to 2 minutes at the Starting windows screen, but that “load .gif” is working just fine, so it isn’t stuck or frozen at that place it just needs some time.
I was checking and checking and the only thing I was able to find is that my DVD-ROM driver doesn’t load, and yeah I can’t see it under my PC nor in the device manager anymore and in event viewer I see error about cd-rom driver not loaded, started at the “same” time when slow boot started, that’s why I think that driver cause slow boot.
I was able to find its “driver package thing” in windows through registry but I am unable to install any .inf file related to it – it says that this method of installation is not supported.
I also tried to use device manager to install it using Have disk option and selecting .inf file, but it doesn’t work too, it says that folder doesn’t contain compatible driver and if does contain driver that I need to make sure it is compatible with 32 bit OS, which should be .
So, I am out of ideas, do you have any.
In .inf file I saw it is about some Mitsumi cd-rom, but I was unable to find driver for it.
Maybe you can help me first with finding driver for it.
Or maybe you can point me to some “generic” one.
If you have any question, ask.
Regards, Tex
strange i had the same problem last week, and after hours of messing about,
first i took out my cd rom, then i slid it back in,
it must have been a loose connection , then when i tried “Ashampoo.Burning.Studio.” to copy a disk it found my cd rom, and after i reset my laptop it was all o.k.
im not sure in your case, but you can try that.
You don’t need no drivers for DVD Rom drives..
Sounds like a hardware problem..Or possibly just faulty cables…
Does the DVD Rom drive get detected by the bios?
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Will see if I can check that out since I can insert cd/dvd in it without any problem, only OS won’t load cd since “driver is messed” up.
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I know I don’t need any drivers for it, but I thought I can do it, maybe it could fix “my problem”.
Will check it tomorrow.
Suggestion – disconnect the data cable from the drive and boot up.
Does it speed things up?
If so, the drive is dead – maybe laser burn out or capacitor popped..
(The power cable doesn’t matter – leave it in or disconnect it, your choice – disconnecting it does make sure though)
All DVDs cycle the laser and self-test – if the drive is flaky or dead it doesn’t give the correct response so the bios tries again.. and again..
They are cheap though – I’ve even got a spare laptop one here, i bought it by mistake (*sheepish grin*) – £17
Edit:
Also, have a look in the bios screens to see if the bios can detect it – if it does then it might be an upper/lower filter problem in windows (Google “delete upper filters”)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/driverssupport/ht/upperfilters-lowerfilters.htm
be me to it but here it is anyway. Pull the drive out and then boot it up. If the DVD-ROM drive is bad and is higher in the boot order than your HDD then the lag is time looking for it before it moves on to the next boot device.
So – how did it go, work out OK?
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, a little busy.
Anyway:
I didn’t disconnect anything since that laptop is still under warranty and this isn’t a big problem at all since it only boot a little bit slower than usual.
There was nothing in registry.
About BIOS thing, I didn’t see DVD-Rom.
I went to “Boot Menu” option (After you use “one key recovery key” you get few options).
I choose Boot menu and there was only HDD too – I pressed Enter, OS booted slow again, but next time and each after DVD-Rom Driver loaded perfectly fine.
Will check BIOS this days again to see does dvd-rom shows in it, it should now.
Who knows what happened, it works for now.
Good.
It’s possible it tried to boot to a dvd that was in it and got “confused” – and when you forced it to reset to HD boot, it recovered.
For a laptop, removing the dvd is one screw underneath and a gentle tug on the drive – no warranty invalidation.
If it’s dead, I have a spare lappy drive here you can have.
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Do you now have a dvd drive in windows? Does it read disks? or discs..
CD/DVD drives use a built in windows driver, actually, C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys
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All is possible.
Not here, here you need to remove battery then you have one screw and after that you can move the whole bottom, you can “slide” with it.
Yes, it can read discs again.
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Yeah, I know that.
Anyway, I just remembered that at that time I installed Office 2013 on it and after that this weird problem started – maybe not related at all.
But all works fine now, I also checked bios and boot menu thing and dvd-rom is visible again.
Thank You for replies.
Tex