My CD-ROM drive is not recognising CD-ROMs

Risinfromthegutter

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem Im having with my PC?

My CD-ROM drive is not recognising CD-ROMs.

The problem was that my PC was running really slow and was constantly low on virtual memory, so after searching online, I disabled virtually all 'services' on my PC.

At the time this was not a problem, as I was only using my PC to play games.

However, I received an iPod for christmas, and realised that my PC would not recognise new hardware or software.

I appear to have solved the hardware problem, by restarting as many service as possible (via the administartive tools icon in Control Panel).

However, some of the services were unable to be restarted, and this seems to be affecting disks been recognised in my CD-ROM drive.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

I apologise for my primitive computer language, I am no expert, although I consider myself to be competent!

Many thanks

heavyhorse

PS - In addition can anybody offer any tips on how to improve the performance of my PC without having to disable all 'services'?

Zahc

Hi, it's difficult to know where to start. Assuming you're using Windows, go to the control panel, system, hardware tab and then device manager and see if you have any yellow triangles against any thing. If you have, right click on them and select properties and see if they're enabled. If not, enable them!
If nothing else this will bump your thread and others will climb on board.

Zahc

albertross_2

try putting it back to the way it was..

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

lack of virtual memory is unlikely to be cured with disabling random services.. if you have less than 512Meg of ram, consider a ram upgrade https://www.crucial.com

is the plug and play service started, and set to automatic?

https://www.ccleaner.com