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Old 08-28-2007   #5 (permalink)
TeXaS*pEtE


 
 

Re: Vista freezing and random usless DVD drive appearing?

I'm pretty sure I showed all the restore points (there were plenty of them).
I will take another look tonight when I get in from work!

"John Barnes" wrote:
Quote:

> Did you choose the show all restore points or just see the first screen with
> the latest restore point.
>
> "TeXaS*pEtE" <TeXaSpEtE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:A4DB0933-5A19-45F0-9013-56F8091523B3@xxxxxx
Quote:

> > Thats another strange thing, the restore only went back to the 26/8/07 and
> > not to the 25/8/07 when it was installed (unless i'm missing something).
> > Do
> > you think a registry cleaner or anti virus software may sort my mess out?
> >
> > "Engel" wrote:
> >
Quote:

> >> As always, you should make sure that you have got a working system
> >> restore
> >> point before you run any test or installatiºn.
> >>
> >> Use the System Restore utility in Windows to reset the OS to a time and
> >> date
> >> point prior to the installatiºn.
> >>
> >> I hope this post is helpful.
> >>
> >> Let us know how it works ºut.
> >> -- ---
> >>
> >> "TeXaS*pEtE" wrote:
> >>
> >> > Greetings, i've had Vista ultimate 32-bit now for a few weeks and its
> >> > been
> >> > going great. This last weekend I installed Daemon tools and ever since
> >> > my
> >> > system has been freezing up completely, and I'm having to power off to
> >> > get
> >> > the damn thing to do anything. Since this happened the first time my
> >> > working
> >> > DVD drive vanished! and I was left with the virtual drive E: (my dvd
> >> > drive
> >> > having been d: I thought it must be Daemon tools, so I there fore
> >> > uninstalled it as i thought it might be the virtual drive. But no! The
> >> > virtual drive E: vanished then leaving me with an unknown DVD drive
> >> > F:?????
> >> > Now after swapping the around the dvd drive wiring inside the cpu, it
> >> > has
> >> > once more returned! But I'm still left with this F: drive. I managed
> >> > to
> >> > uninstall this useless drive and everything was fine, until later on
> >> > the cpu
> >> > froze AGAIN! I powered off, re-booted and shock horror The f: drive is
> >> > back!
> >> > along with my working D: DVD drive!
> >> >
> >> > I am still getting random crashes and mainly freezing of my system.
> >> > Can
> >> > anybody shed any light? I'm pretty sure its the DVD drive and Daemon
> >> > Tools
> >> > causing it (Even though its uninstalled). I did also notice when I was
> >> > searching for hardware changes when I lost the DVD drive the first
> >> > time,that
> >> > it froze the system up as well. This other drive f: appears as LITE-ON
> >> > then
> >> > a load of numbers & letters and it says its a cdrom drive.
> >> >
> >> > My system is as follows:
> >> >
> >> > Processor: intel core duo E6600
> >> > Motherboard: nforce 680i sli
> >> > Memory: 2GB corsair twinX XMS2
> >> > Graphics card: 768mb Gainward 8800GTX
> >> > Hard Drive: 250 Gb Western Digital WD2500KS Caviar SE16, SATA300, 7200
> >> > rpm,
> >> > 16MB Cache, 8.9 ms
> >> > 1.44Mb Sony Black Floppy Disk Drive OEM
> >> > Bog standard DVD drive (make escapes me! but nothing fancy)
> >> > LN18713 - DVD writer - £20.20(x2 because its so much better having 2)
> >> > Windows vista ultimate 32-bit
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thank you
> >> >
> >> >
>
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