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Installed new DVD-RW drive,win2k pro keeps asking for driver

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Everytime I reboot the system the hardware wizard comes up asking for device driver but the drive is working for almost a week now. If the drive is working why does it keep asking for the driver?

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yes but there is no driver for this drive. i guess its built in. Only driver i see is a cd/dvd rom filter and it warns me that it may not work since windows cannot tell if its compatible

 

Plus I have no warnings in my device manager

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I've not come across any messages like this under Win 2k, but then again, when I build boxes I usually install any DVD-ROM or R/W drives in first before the install of the OS, not afterwards.

 

Perhaps this is the issue, I'll have to try this on Monday and see what happens.

 

BTW - like sapiens has suggested, have you made sure you have the latest IDE drivers installed, perhaps re-install them to see if this resolves anything. Perhaps a reg key was not created properly or something.

 

Also you can try installing a 3rd party DVD decoder for the drive, such as WinDVD or PowerDVD and then see if it still asks for this.

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I noticed that there are still registry entries for the old 36x cdrom I had in there before but when I try to delete them I get an error message saying I cannot delete them. any ideas?

 

 

 

i went to device manager and uninstalledl in safe mode my 2 cdroms and both ide channels. rebooted and it now keeps doing the new hardware detected thing with both cdrom drives. wierd

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I would then go get the latest VIA 4in1 Drivers and install them.

 

After the reboot see what happens wink

 

BTW - these drivers are now optimized for both Win2K/XP smile

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I dont use the via drivers under win2k should I be? my mobo has the AMD 761 chipset and Via 686B southbridge

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Oh, you have one of the hybrid chipsets, no, don't use the VIA 4in1 then wink

 

Sorry about that, but you did make sure to d/l the latest drivers from AMD's website then ?!?

 

This appears to be the latest ones for Win 2K

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whats driving me nuts is that I cant delete the registry entries for the old 36x cdrom that I see in the registry and I am logged in as admin

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This could very well be the main issue, registry corruption frown

 

I find the only two solutions to this is to do a repair install via the install media or a complete reinstall via the install media along with a reformat of the system/boot drive or partition wink

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Is it also a DVD-RAM drive? if so, this requires a driver, and it will be on the CD. My LG 4020B DVD-R/-RW/-Ram is like this

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wierd thing is everytime I reboot win2k pro the hardware wizard comes up redetecting my HP 9300i and my Operite DD0203 dvd-rw drives, if I hit cancel they work fine. Any ideas? I tried to go into the registry and delete any references to the two drives but it wont let me delete the key.

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Hi there, I have exactly the same problem as the original post, my Pioneer DVD-121 drive still does this after i updated the firmware, the same happened to my Pioneer DVRA07 after a firmware update, i corrected this by flashing an older firmware back onto the drive, i have not resolved the DVD-121's problem and it's really annoying, i noticed that it tries to install itself twice everytime i boot up and fails on the second attempt because its already installed, try googleing "the firmware page" as a firmware update could fix it. good luck.

 

James

 

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