XP + cd/dvd drives not working!!!! GAHH!

[royce]

Ok I have my cd/dvd comb drive on master, my sata hard drive on everything... basically EVERYTHING hardware wise is ok, everything in bios is fine too. The problem is, I cant see my cd disk drive in my computer. It shows up in device manager and has a yellow "!" in front of the symbol. It says the error is this...

"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device."

Now I tried uninstalling and re-installing it in device manager. I even tried using different drives.. I even used an external usb cd drive! IT still does NOT work! Every drive I hook up, I get the same thing, same error. So can anyone help me out? Its been like this for over 2 months, i've just been too lazy to fix it. PLLEEEAASSEE HEELLP!!

[Steve]

Have you got the latest chipset drivers for the motherboard, particularly the IDE driver?