Here is what the event viewer is telling me:
"The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
cdrom"
And what the event viewer listed in detail:
<"Event
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name="Service Control Manager" Guid="{555908D1-A6D7-4695-8E1E-26931D2012F4}" EventSourceName="Service Control Manager" />
<EventID
Qualifiers="49152">7026</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-01-05T17:05:31.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>13684</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>System</Channel>
<Computer>themissing_link</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data Name="param1">cdrom</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>"I have a toshiba a105 laptop with ati x1250 mobility graphics. This is a revival project, and it doesn't currently have a disc drive installed. I use an external drive for install purposes. I have ordered a drive, but its on back order. I have been reading up on this and everyone has been pointing to drivers, but I havent updates my drivers in a long time and this just started in the past week.
Jan 06, 2008
- Thanks a lot for the explanation and such. I figured it was a service related issue, but why would cd rom drivers/service be trying to run when I do not have an optical disc drive installed? I use Advanced Windows Care V2 everyday, and all it found was an obsolete key related to file extensions. I would normally format and reinstall, but I just recently loaned my external optical drive to a friend.
Is there anyways to disable the driver/service that is trying to load? since I dont require it.
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