"Drivers" for common components like the CD drive??

[Al Dykes]

I've got a good XP laptop that recently decided that it doesn't like
it's drivers as shown in Device Manager. I've tried uninstalling the
device, logically and physically and resinstalling. It asks where to
search for drivers and I point to \i386 and other places with no
effect.

I've popped in a DVD drive from a known-good laptop and I get the same.

In the past, I've changed CD/DVD drives and never been asked for new
drivers in an XP system.

Any ideas?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I've got a good XP laptop that recently decided that it doesn't like
it's drivers as shown in Device Manager. I've tried uninstalling
the device, logically and physically and resinstalling. It asks
where to search for drivers and I point to \i386 and other places
with no effect.

I've popped in a DVD drive from a known-good laptop and I get the
same.

In the past, I've changed CD/DVD drives and never been asked for new
drivers in an XP system.

The laptop manufacturer's support and driver download pages...

Get the chipset, controller, video and network card drivers...

 

[Ian D]

I've got a good XP laptop that recently decided that it doesn't like
it's drivers as shown in Device Manager. I've tried uninstalling the
device, logically and physically and resinstalling. It asks where to
search for drivers and I point to \i386 and other places with no
effect.

I've popped in a DVD drive from a known-good laptop and I get the same.

In the past, I've changed CD/DVD drives and never been asked for new
drivers in an XP system.

Any ideas?


--
Al Dykes
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Try reinstalling the chipset drivers. The drive controllers are
in the Southbridge chip. No further drivers are needed unless
you're using SATA drives in AHCI or RAID mode, which is
probably not likely in a laptop.

 

[Al Dykes]

I've got a good XP laptop that recently decided that it doesn't like
it's drivers as shown in Device Manager. I've tried uninstalling the
device, logically and physically and resinstalling. It asks where to
search for drivers and I point to \i386 and other places with no
effect.

I've popped in a DVD drive from a known-good laptop and I get the same.

In the past, I've changed CD/DVD drives and never been asked for new
drivers in an XP system.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the responses. I'm not about to try chipset drivers until I
can do an image backup and be prepared to recover from it when the
attempted chipset driver upgrade fails.

Today I plugged an external CD drive into the USB port and it appears
to give the same error. Lots of other USB gadgets work fine in this
machine including a 1GB data fob.

Give the above, how can the chipset drivers be at fault?



LocalWords: chipset

 

[Shenan Stanley]

Thanks for the responses. I'm not about to try chipset drivers
until I can do an image backup and be prepared to recover from
it when the attempted chipset driver upgrade fails.

Today I plugged an external CD drive into the USB port and it
appears to give the same error. Lots of other USB gadgets work
fine in this machine including a 1GB data fob.

Give the above, how can the chipset drivers be at fault?

You do realize that the motherboard chipset controls more than just your USB
ports, right?

Although - I agree with your imaging the machine - something you should
likely be doing periodically in conjunction with your regular file/folder
(personal items/system state) backups.

Not sure why you think a chipset driver update will fail - as long as you
get the chipset drivers from the actual manufacturer of the
motherboard/laptop and *not* (ever) from the Microsoft/Windows updates web
page.

 

[smlunatick]

Thanks for the responses. I'm not about to try chipset drivers until I
can do an image backup and be prepared to recover from it when the
attempted chipset driver upgrade fails.

Today I plugged an external CD drive into the USB port and it appears
to give the same error.  Lots of other USB gadgets work fine in this
machine including a 1GB data fob.

Give the above, how can the chipset drivers be at fault?

 LocalWords:  chipset

I personally seen that the chipset drivers help XP to detect AGP video
card slots, IRQ control settings, EIDE UltraDMA controls and USB port
access.

It also should be noted that external CD/DVD drives tend to also need
drivers, usually found on an included CD or you can download these
from the drive's manufacturer.