A user has a Compaq Armada E500 with Win2k-SP3 installed. It has a DVD reader installed (Compaq DVD-ROM DRN-8080B, according to Dev. Mangler).
After the user attempted to install a cd-burning application on this machine, we find that the DVD drive is unavailable as a drive letter. It is listed in the device manager, but "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device." I went into "Driver Details" under the Driver tab, noted the drivers being used, and renamed them (e.g., cdrom.sys to cdrom.sys.bak). I then deleted the device using the dev manager. My thought was that I could un-use this set of drivers and have Win2k re-detect the drive on reboot, and load a set of un-corrupted and appropriate drivers. It didn't work. Windows reinstalled the device and assigned the same drivers as before (probably pulled them out of driver.cab?). Anyway, I need some suggestions on how I can get this thing to work! I'm looking around for non-MS drivers for this piece of hardware, but..... Anyone? Anyone? thx _______________________ There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who do not. ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
