this device cannot start (code 10)
- I am having a problem with my cd/dvd drive. It won't read discs and when I go into device manager it has LITE-ON DVDRW LH - 18A1P ATA Device and beside it is a yellow triangle. Check for solutions to send data about this device to Microsoft and see if there is a solution available. Under solutions could not load driver. It used to work but only last week when I tried it wouldn't do anything. I have tried your solutions that were given to najeyajpa but they didn't work. Any other solutions?
If someone could help ASP that would be great!!- Moved byCarey FrischMVP, ModeratorSaturday, September 05, 2009 9:52 PMMoved to relevant category (From:Windows Vista Setup)
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- In Device Manager, right-click on your DVD drive and select uninstall. Restart your computer and Vista will automatically reinstall it properly.
- Carey that didn't work either!! Thanks for the help though.
Hi Lisa,
I suggest trying the following steps to troubleshoot the issue:
Step 1 If you have any third-party CD/DVD-burning software such as Naro or Roxio installed, please temporarily remove them from "Control Panel"-> "Programs and Features".
Step 2 Delete Filter Drivers
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1. Click Start, type regedit and press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
3. Right click the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} entry, choose "Export", select Desktop in the Save in box and type backup in File Name. Click Save.
Please Note: The backup file is on the Desktop and named backup.reg. We can simply restore the registry by double-clicking the backup.reg file.
4. Highlight this key ({4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}), on the right pane, and then check if Upperfilters and Lowerfilters value are present. If so, please right click on the values and select "Delete" to remove them.
5. Restart the computer.
Step 3 Reinstall the DVDRW drive
======================
1. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and press Enter.
2. Expand DVD/CD-ROM drives.
3. Right-click the DVDRW drive and click Uninstall. Restart the computer.
Hope it helps.
Tim Quan - MSFT
- Tried all that and nothing works!! I am getting it looked at tomorrow. Hopefully it's nothing too bad.
Hi Lisa,
Thank you for the reply.
Please understand most CD/DVD drive issues can be resolved after performing the above steps. I suggest trying these steps again.
If the issue persists, please help me collect the following information:
1. When did the DVDRW work last time?
2. Have any changes been made on the computer recently, such as an installation or upgrade?
3. Can the DVDRW work on other computer now?
In addition, please send me the System Information for further research.
1. Press Start, type in msinfo32 in the Start Search bar and then press Enter.
2. Choose Save from the File menu and save it as an NFO file.
3. Find the file, right-click on this file, click "Send To", and click "Compressed (zipped) Folder".
4. Send the compressed file to me.
I have created a FTP site and you can upload the file to me from the following the following site:
https://sftus.one.microsoft.com/ChooseTransfer.aspx?key=72d1712a-d3ff-4248-a948-26f42e470b5b
Password: nEoQ6Jr*AC1-
Hope it helps.
Tim Quan - MSFT
Thanks for a useful forum
I am having exactly the same problem but with using a USB Presenter Drive, (Combined laser pointer/Powerpoint 'mouse'/250MB Drive).
I have checked the information regarding 'regedit' and looked for the entry "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
However I have found about 6 entries the same, all showing "{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}", that causes me some confusion and naturally I haven't taken any further action as yet!
The machine I have the problem with is an Acer Aspire 5720 laptop running Windows Vista Home Premium - the USB Presenter Drive works perfectly on my Acer Travelmate 250 with Microsoft XP Home but not on the new Acer with Vista.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Hi mr webname,
Please make sure you have six {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} entries.
Please understand its <"its" is unclear>adjoining entries are similar. They can be {4D36E966-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}, {4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} and so on.
If the case is that six {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} entries do exist, please back up the registry key and then delete the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values.
Hope it helps.
Tim Quan - MSFT
- I have the same problem with the disappearing CD/DVD drive. I thought a complete reload of Vista using SP1 might solve this, but it did not. I do not have any filters showing under the key discussed above. Any other ideas?
Tim Quan - MSFT wrote: Hi there. I got as far as stage 4 of step 2, but I have no idea of what values for upperfilters and lowerfilters look like. The details for mine are: Lowerfilters - PxHelp20, Upperfilters - GEARAspiWDM. Is it safe to delete these?
I suggest trying the following steps to troubleshoot the issue:
Step 1 If you have any third-party CD/DVD-burning software such as Naro or Roxio installed, please temporarily remove them from "Control Panel"-> "Programs and Features".
Step 2 Delete Filter Drivers
==================
1. Click Start, type regedit and press ENTER.
2. Navigate to the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
3. Right click the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} entry, choose "Export", select Desktop in the Save in box and type backup in File Name. Click Save.
Please Note: The backup file is on the Desktop and named backup.reg. We can simply restore the registry by double-clicking the backup.reg file.
4. Highlight this key ({4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}), on the right pane, and then check if Upperfilters and Lowerfilters value are present. If so, please right click on the values and select "Delete" to remove them.
5. Restart the computer.
Step 3 Reinstall the DVDRW drive
======================
1. Click Start, type devmgmt.msc and press Enter.
2. Expand DVD/CD-ROM drives.
3. Right-click the DVDRW drive and click Uninstall. Restart the computer.
Hope it helps.
Tim Quan - MSFT
- i still have XP anyone know how to solve this problem on XP?
- Great troubleshooting the issue. I have tried the steps, Upperfilters is present but Lowerfilters are not present.
What would you suggest? I had my computer fixed about 6 weeks ago and it had to have a new driver put in it and yesterday it has failed yet again. I can't begin to tell you how annoyed I am. Vista sucks and someone needs to fix the bloody problem. So now I am back to square one and no doubt will have to get the computer man out to fix it again. Last time we were without it for a week and we have out book work on it and really can't be without the computer. I have tried all the suggestions and nothing works but I will try them again. Any other suggestions would be a great help.
Problem solved! Thanks BIG thanks 4 everthing. This worked with perfection on win Xp Tim Quan &Jacqs, love yall man. Anytime your in the bahamas, Freeport tobe exact, check me out man ! God bless, LATA!!!!!!!!
Hi Tim
I got same problem after i did some upgrades from intel/hp about a month ago.
I tried the removing the LowerFilter and DVD drive appears on reboot but removes itself from device manager /and/ my computer after some time.
To bring it back I do "scan for hardware changes", which works some times (some times gives error that device drive is already loaded with a yellow triangle, and I have to reboot in this situation)
and then it goes away itself again.
even if it appears in my computer , my software/s (roxio dvd burner/HP dvd player etc except window dvd maker) still unable to detect the dvd drive.
I cant seem to get it working flawless.
now as it doesnt work i have again loaded the backup.reg to have lower filter value back in the registry.
i also tried removing and reinstalling dvd drive as well as IDE channels from devide manager. but nogo.
can u help me here.
Hi..
I tried all this and I still am having issues with my DVD/CD. Can you help me please/
I cannot say when this started. One day I had use and the next day I did not.
Thank you
ellbee123
- Tim, you're an absolute legend. Worked for me.
Something of note if anybody was following Tim's advice, I uninstalled a program called NTI CD/DVD burner - which I had actually got from Acer. This appeared beside Upperfilters in regedit. It appears to have installed useless drivers for my DVD Rom drive which have now disappeared in Device Manager.
Follow this word for word and with care and it'll work. I guess I'm feeling lucky.
i deleted the storage controller from the device manager, and reboot windows which detected and reintalled the microsoft default Standard ACHI SATA driver, instead of updated intel ICH8m-e/m SATA driver
and there i go, its been over 15 hours and i dont have and error message in event log regarding my CD drive till now.
Hopefully atleast this could help if anyone of you is using the same driver, just go ahead and rollback the storage driver and try if that works for you.
PS:My laptop is HP and beside HP support was forcing me to get the computer restored to factory settings as a easy try to fix the problem, i was not giving up. Contacting Microsoft hasn't proved any useful either and then suddenly i started to look at my storage drivers from Intel.
I went to driveragent.com which reported my intel ICH8m-em SATA driver for my laptop chipset is out of date, which led me to goto intel.com and look at the latest driver available there for my chipset storage drivers ICH8m-e/m. A quick look at known issues clearly indicated the Optical Disk Drive power wake up request for change of status D3 to D1 is not passing through the driver.So i started thinking that there was my problem,
I contacted HP support again to ask them if they know this issue, their reply came that being my CD Driver is not SATA capable so it wont matter issue regarding that driver.
i still tried the latest version but it gave me same problem. so i tried the above solution and find it worked.
Note: HP and Microsoft Support is still thinking why removing a SATA driver worked for a ATA drive....let them think whatever i dont care as long as my cd drive works.
- That only works if there is nothing wrong with your system in the first place. You can uninstall and physically remove the drive. If the problem is in the registry when you physically reinstall the drive and restart the system you will still have a code 10. You have to repair the problem where the problem exist in the registry. Uninstalling the device in the device manager dosen't fix the registry. IT SHOULD, but it doesen't.
- Tim,
Just wanted to let you know that this solution worked really well for me! Thank you for taking the time to share your technical expertise. Much appreciated! - allright this worked to find my cd/dvd burner but my drivers are on a nero disk and the computer gets a hyperthread error and the installer keeps shutin off any suggestions would be helpful thanks
- This worked for me, thanks Tim!
Tim Quan,
You are a real genius. I have been searching and trying so many fixes. I read yours, assumed it would not work, read about some users not having luck, then just ignored your response.
Then, I read it again, read further saw some successes and said what the heck? Dell wanted 49.00 as I am out of warranty and I would have been on phone for 200 hours speaking over the Pacific Ocean and not getting any results.
Your procedure worked to perfection. A real genius. Thanks.
Greg- Hello Tim
I have thes same error message with the network adapter of my laptop "this device cannot start (code 10)". I tried to reinstall the network driver but the problem persit. whit the yellow trianble beside the driver into device manager.
Could I follow the steps you mentioned above for this particular case?
Regards. - Hello Every one,
i have a toshiba laptop, with Win Vista in it. I didnt had this problem but, this code 10 error the device cannot start, started coming on my sound driver.
i tried reinstalling the driver, updated the driver with new one but this didnt worked. i am having a real hard time fixing this code 10 error on my laptop.
My sound driver is from realtek.
Please help me out with this, it would be much appreciated.
thank you regards
rksm2002in
