On a newly installed Windows 2008 server (HP DL360G6), I found the following error in my event log:
Log Name: System
Source: Service Control Manager
Date: 30-7-2010 8:52:42
Event ID: 7026
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: servername
Description:
The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
cdrom
As the server does not have a cdrom drive, this is an somewhat expected error (although I don’t understand why Windows wants to start the cdrom service since the server has never had a cdrom drive connected :) ).
Anyways, to prevent this error from appearing in your event viewer, you should disable the cdrom service. To do so, follow these steps:
- Click Start, click Run, type “regedit” and click OK
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\cdrom\
- Double-click “Start” and change the value from 1 to 4
- Click OK and reboot the computer. The service cdrom will now not start at startup