Installed new DVD-RW drive,win2k pro keeps asking for driver
This is a discussion about Installed new DVD-RW drive,win2k pro keeps asking for driver in the Windows Hardware category; 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?.
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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It is an IDE drive?
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yes
Have you tried to install the driver when it asks?
IF not, disable plug and play.
IF not, disable plug and play.
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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
Plus I have no warnings in my device manager
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.
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
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 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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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
This could very well be the main issue, registry corruption
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
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
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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no its a dvd-rom drive, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, cd-r, cd-rw
here :: http://www.optorite.com/dd0203.htm
here :: http://www.optorite.com/dd0203.htm
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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.
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
James
