Installing CD-ROM troubles

[lee551]

this is kinda a hardware/software question so...

an old & cheap cd-rom recently went out in one of my machines. i have a few extra ones so i was going to put one of them in. i have tried 2 different ones, and both times windows wont install damn drivers. they are pretty generic cd-roms so it shouldn't be that complicated. windows should just recognize them and install right?

the drive is marked with an exclamation point in the device manager and it has this erorr message in the status window:

"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device"

it did that same thing for both drives and i cannot find drivers on the net that work either. any suggestions/help? tia.

[tesco]

right click the drive>update driver.
put in your windows xp cd and let it search that for a driver...or manually point to the cd drive and find the drivers (it's a file called driver.cab).

[lee551]

didn't work. maybe because the cd would have to be in the cd-rom that isn't working? is it supposed to be able to read from it even though the drivers aren't installed?

could i copy the driver.cab to the computer and take it from there?

[tesco]

oops forgot about that :lol:

ya if u can find a way to copy driver.cab to the hard drive then that would work.

[lee551]

k. i didn't wanna put it in a way that i thought you were saying something ridiculous. lol.

i'll copy the cab file onto this computer and then i'll copy it onto that computer. hopefully that will work.

[lee551]

ok. it wont let me copy the file. it gives me the error:

"Cannot copy DRIVER: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)."

damnit.

[hippychick]

Or u can find out the make and model and run a search for it on google and dl the driver from the maker.

[lee551]

did. one is a cyberdrive cw068d cd-r/rw. they dont have drivers because they claim that windows has them all. all they have is DOS drivers so that you can install the cd-rom before you install windows off a cd.

the other is an atapi cd-rom 44x. no luck finding drivers.

[tesco]

ya there are no drivers it just uses windows generic drivers.


maybe u can find driver.cab on a p2p program. or you will need a new windows xp disc.

[Virtualbody1234]

Have you tried uninstalling the item from the device manager and restarting you PC? It should detect the new drive and install the drivers.

Edit: I just thought about this... What OS are you using?

[hippychick]

perhaps this will work.
http://www.cdrom-drivers.com/companies/124.htm
http://www.driverzone.com/dsp3.php?id=122&cat=4&pass=
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Support_Intel.asp

u might be able to find some drivers for the cd/rw there.

I'll look around and see if I can find more for ya.

[lee551]

rossco: thanx i'll look

virtualbody: windows xp pro. i did uninstall the drive and restarted. it told me that it detected a new device etc, but when i went to the device manager it had the same error message.

hippychick: thanks.

[Virtualbody1234]

To summarize, if a) the CD-ROM drive is NOT D.O.A. and b) Windows is installed properly and c) the motherboard's chipset and IDE controller are working properly with the correct drivers, then the CD-ROM should work. YOU DO NOT NEED WINDOWS CD-ROM DRIVERS FROM CYBERDRIVE.
From: http://www.cyberdrive.com/tech_issues.asp?ID=9

Maybe you need your chipset drivers or IDE controller drivers?

[hippychick]

rossco: thanx i'll look

virtualbody: windows xp pro. i did uninstall the drive and restarted. it told me that it detected a new device etc, but when i went to the device manager it had the same error message.

hippychick: thanks.
NP...good luck!!!

[lee551]

perhaps this will work.
http://www.cdrom-drivers.com/companies/124.htm
http://www.driverzone.com/dsp3.php?id=122&cat=4&pass=
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Support_Intel.asp


first link: i found that link earlier, i dunno which ones to even use... looks really confusing.

second link: tried both, neither worked.

third link: no results for cyberdrive or atapi.


virtualbody: how would i know that?

[tesco]

first link: i found that link earlier, i dunno which ones to even use... looks really confusing.

second link: tried both, neither worked.

third link: no results for cyberdrive or atapi.


virtualbody: how would i know that?
what motherboard?

[peat moss]

That must be one old cd drive! :)
I had this problem I found older drivers on google .

http://digilander.libero.it/pnavato/drivers/

[lee551]

what motherboard?

its a mainboard K7S5A

[lee551]

fixed it. doing what this Microsoft article said fixed it:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553


i dont know what deleting the upper & lower filters has to do with anything, but it sure fixed my problem.

[<Kevin>]

hmmm, these are some old posts.. but for anyone that comes accross this post, as I did, you might find it difficult to copy driver.cab from disk because of the longer file names in the cabinet files. (I am not an expert on this but that is the most logical view i read in another forum - check annoyances.org)

I have had this problem in Win2k but not XP, but then again i had other files that wouldn't copy from the XP setup disk aswell. Can also depend on hardware (CPU clockspeed, RAM) - make sure it is fully upgraded.

If you have latest h/w and OS & still no luck try getting the latest service pack before going further. Win2k/XP SP1 is supposed to resolve by placing sp1.cab but these r just updates & won't necessarily help all your installations. I have to enter the Windows setup disk each time I want to install some hardware components, others are ok...