XP vs. CDROM drives

[Mikey049]

Why does X P Professional edition occasionally drop out my Liteon CDRw and Pioneer 16X DVD rom drive so I cannot access either? They don't show up in windows explorer. In device manager they are yellowed out. The message says that there is a registry problem. Why does this happen and what can I do to fix? Help!!

 

[Doctor Who]

Hmm well it seems that Windows is dropping your IDE controller drivers for the CD Roms, have had this happen to me many a time, download the right driver from whoever made your motherboard, install it and all should be fine again.

 

[syn]

update your drivers, especially for your mobo, and it should be fixed

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Also have a read over here.