Optical drive Troubleshooting Instance 5

After using the optical drive frequently, the optical drive will inevitably occur some faults, after careful consideration of these failures, we may not be difficult to find that a part of the failure is not caused by the quality of the optical drive itself, but our improper operation or software set up errors caused by these factors caused by the optical drive failure is usually classified as optical drive " Soft fault. " To eliminate this kind of special "soft fault", we only targeted from the software settings, to the optical drive to create a suitable "soft" environment, to ensure that the optical drive often new!

Troubleshoot optical drive icon disorder

The CD-ROM installation program was recently installed on a computer with a Windows 98 operating system. Accidentally see the optical drive Display icon suddenly become a "removable hard disk", and double-click the crazy Optical drive icon, the system pop-up prompts can not use the physical optical drive normally, do not know how this strange soft fault is how to appear, How can we rule out such a failure?

Generally speaking, the optical drive icon of the disorder is usually a soft fault, the most likely cause of this failure is the computer system in the virus, so we encountered this strange phenomenon, may wish to first find a genuine anti-virus software, computer systems to carry out a thorough virus killing operations, after cleaning up the virus, If the optical drive icon does not return to normal, then we need to use the substitution method, the replacement of other normal physical optical drive installed in the computer to test, because many systems for a specific model of physical optical drive compatibility is not good, often lead to the optical drive is inexplicable fault.

If you replace the normal physical optical drive and the computer system still displays an incorrect icon for the optical drive, then we can basically conclude that the optical drive driver in the computer system is missing or has been corrupted, and then we can follow the steps below to restore the driver for the optical drive:

First find a computer that also has the Windows 98 operating system installed, and make sure that the physical optical drive icon that is installed on the computer is properly displayed by the system, and then log in to the computer system, open the Resource Manager window for the systems, and expand the windows, System, and Iosubsys folder, and in the corresponding "Iosubsys" folder window, locate the "Cdfs.vxd" file, and then use the Flash disk to copy the file directly to the problematic computer corresponding subfolder, and finally restart the problematic computer system, Believe that this will be able to eliminate the optical drive icon disorder fault.

Troubleshoot optical drive Intermittent Read disk

The intermittent read disk failure mentioned here, specifically refers to the CD-ROM drive can sometimes read the contents of the first CD, but can not continue to read the contents of the second CD, but the optical drive on the computer system restart, the CD-ROM may be able to read the contents of the second CD. Obviously, this intermittent reading disk failure is the direct performance of the optical drive reading disk performance instability, the cause of this failure in addition to the stability of the system itself and the quality of the optical drive itself, but also with our software settings have a certain relationship; In order to effectively improve the CD-ROM performance, we can in the Windows The XP operating system attempts to set the following parameters for the physical optical drive:

First in the Windows system desktop, with the mouse to expand the "Start", "Run" project, and then appear in the running dialog box, the input string command "Compmgmt.msc", click the Enter key, enter the system's Computer Management window;

In the list area on the left side of the window, locate the storage item, select the Removable Storage branch below the item, double-click the Library option under the corresponding branch, and then select the disk that is unstable with the read disc below the library option;

Optical Drive Properties

Next, right-click the selected physical optical drive and execute the Properties command on the shortcut menu. Enter the parameter setting window for the optical drive, and then click the General tab in the window to open the label page shown in Figure 1, which will "retract the media that is not mounted" at the "deferred dismount" setting item on the page. The parameter is set to "0", then click the "OK" button, and then restart the computer system where the optical drive is located, so that the CD-ROM disc failure can be effectively controlled.

Troubleshoot optical drive icon loss

In the process of using the optical drive, we sometimes encounter the strange phenomenon that each time the computer system is restarted, the CD-ROM icon appearing in the My Computer window is automatically lost and can only be refreshed in the system's device list interface. When you install such a "problem" optical drive to another computer, you find that the physical optical drive appears to be all right at the initial stage, but the icon for the physical optical drive is missing as you frequently install and uninstall some applications. Because this kind of optical drive failure usually occurs after the application is frequently installed and unloaded, the author thinks that the fault is also a kind of soft fault, in the face of this type of soft fault, we should take what tricks to skillfully deal with it?

Considering that this type of optical drive failure often occurs after the software installation and uninstall operation, so once we find out that the optical drive icon is missing, immediately check which applications have recently been installed or removed, and then right-click the "My Computer" icon in the System desktop, and click Properties from the shortcut menu that appears later. option, open the System's Property Settings window, click the Hardware tab in the window, and click the Device Manager button in the corresponding tab page to enter the system's Device List window.

Device Manager

In the window, check to see if the standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller item exists under IDE ATA/ATAPI controller or if the item has a yellow exclamation mark on its surface, and if so, select the item directly, and right-click the item with the right mouse button. To perform the delete command from the pop-up shortcut menu, then click the "Action"/"Scan for hardware Changes" menu command in the Device Manager window (as shown in Figure 2), and once a hint such as standard dual-channel PCI IDE controller appears again on the system screen, The missing physical optical drive icon can be displayed again.

Troubleshoot optical drive reading disk troubleshooting

Here refers to the reading disk fault, in fact, refers to the CD-ROM drive can normally read part of the contents of the CD, but there are some of the CD content can not be read correctly, and those who can not read the normal disc itself and no quality problems, can be read by other optical drive correctly. When encountering this kind of reading disk fault, the first thing worth affirming is that the current physical optical drive itself does not have a hardware failure, after all, the optical drive is able to identify a part of the CD content; Since the optical drive in the hardware is not a problem, then the CD ROM drive ability to reduce the main reason is At this time we can follow the following steps to try to modify the parameters of the optical drive, perhaps this can effectively improve the optical drive reading disk fault:

First restart the computer system where the optical drive is located, in the boot process in time to press the DEL key (different motherboard, the function key may be not the same), into the system BIOS parameter settings interface, in the interface to find the corresponding optical drive IDE interface parameters, and check whether the parameter is set to "Auto" , if not, the parameter must be adjusted in time.