Notebook optical drive help?

[DukeofSerbia]

Hello.

Your problem is conflict between optical drive and wireless card in so called IRQ channels. And that messed Windows. There is high probability that wireless card and optical drive use the same IRQ channel. Do you have manual for you notebook BIOS?

1. You can set IRQ manual in Windows but I don’t know how.

2. Enter in BIOS and go in section PnP/PCI Configuration (or similar name). Something is messed there. Try to manual solve conflict with IRQ. But you need to know what IRQ channels use both devices which can be found partly in section Integrated Peripherals (or similar name). In PnP/PCI Configuration you will see probably Auto set up on all PCI x IRQ Assignment (x is number – my motherboard have 5 PCI slots). In section Integrated Peripherals you need to find your optical drive. Find all IRQ and numbers and then compare with that in PnP/PCI Configuration. Locate your wireless card and change its IRQ number. That will probably solve your problem.

3. If nothing helps, uninstall your wireless card and try to use optical drive.
- If optical drive works try to install another wireless card.
- If optical drive doesn’t work you will need to go in service with notebook as Windows is totally screwed up.

Ask if something is not clear enough.

[USMCNJ]

thanks everyone for the help.
I've reinstalled windows and everything is back to normal.