DVD Drive Firmware Upgrade Now Driver Problem

[Guest]

OS: XP SP2
Problem Drive: Sony DRU-710A, DVD/CD RW Drive

I upgraded the firmware to version BYX5 on the DVD drive. After reboot,
Windows identifies a new bit of hardware (the DRU-710A) and asks for a driver
to be installed. There is no Sony specific driver, it used Microsoft
5.1.2535.0 perviously - before I sutpidly "upgraded" the firmware. i
reinstalled the included Nero software and updated it to the latest verison.
That did not solve the driver problem.

When using the included Nero software (OEM version 6, just updated it) after
the firmwar update, but without installing the "new drivers", the drive would
read, write, and bascially function, although Autoplay did not seem to work
to well.

I followed the procedure identified in Article 314060 to clean out the
registry (which included uninstalling the Nero software), but it still wants
me to install a driver.

Now the properties indicate there is an unknown driver installed and there
is a yellow exclaimation mark in the Device Manager for the drive. Clicking
on Driver Details... button yields a warning that no driver is required or
loaded. (there was some sort of GEARaspi.dll file listed before I uninstalled
Nero)

What can I do to "install" the Microsoft driver?

 

[RJK]

Reflash the drive with the firmware version that was previously in it -
unless there was a specific reason you were trying to stuff a newer *.bin
into it !

regards, Richard

 

[Guest]

Thanks, that did work. The only reason I did the firmware upgrade was to see
if I could get the iTunes to backup to DVD, which is was not doing before or
after the upgrade.

 

[trinity digital studio]

so what can i do ? my media player and my real player won't play dvd's

 

[V Green]

Go buy a new drive. Seriously.

They're cheap, you will be back in business
and will have learned that unless your drive mgfr.
allows you go change the firmware back to a lower
version somehow if it fails, never do it.