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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok
except by LG burner which started acting up. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
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Barry Bruyea wrote: I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? Which build of XP did you install? The original XP install from 2001? Did you install any service packs? Any other updates? I personally found updating up to SP2 to be the most stable for most of my machines here. And SP3 here wasn't so hot. As it had broken with old stuff. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 2GB - Windows XP SP3 |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
On 2/18/12 3:27 AM, Barry Bruyea wrote:
I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? Would it be safe to assume you also installed all the updates? That would include doing a Custom update that would list new drivers, if MS has them. I recently did a machine that had an older Nvidia GeForce graphics card. The MS update process had a driver update for the card that was 2004. When I went to Nvidia's site, they had a driver from 2009. I'd suggest you go to LG's site, if you haven't already done that. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 10.0.2 Thunderbird 10.0.2 LibreOffice 3.4.5 |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:27:00 -0500, Barry Bruyea
wrote: I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. What does acting up mean? I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? The drivers are part of Windows. Go to Device Manager, uninstall the burner, detect new hardware, then let XP reinstall the driver. If the drive us still acting up, you'll have to be a bit more specific about its behavior. |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:56:51 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote: On 2/18/12 3:27 AM, Barry Bruyea wrote: I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? Would it be safe to assume you also installed all the updates? That would include doing a Custom update that would list new drivers, if MS has them. I recently did a machine that had an older Nvidia GeForce graphics card. The MS update process had a driver update for the card that was 2004. When I went to Nvidia's site, they had a driver from 2009. I'd suggest you go to LG's site, if you haven't already done that. I've installed XP3 and all the updates and LG reports they do not provide a device driver (only a firmware update, which I have) as MS's device driver is used and they don't know if MS has updated the 2001 Device Driver. |
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On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:40:41 -0600, Char Jackson
wrote: On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:27:00 -0500, Barry Bruyea wrote: I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. What does acting up mean? It will not read or burn DL disks. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? The drivers are part of Windows. Go to Device Manager, uninstall the burner, detect new hardware, then let XP reinstall the driver. If the drive us still acting up, you'll have to be a bit more specific about its behavior. |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
Barry Bruyea wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:56:51 -0700, Ken Springer wrote: On 2/18/12 3:27 AM, Barry Bruyea wrote: I recently had to re-install XP (clean install). Everything was Ok except by LG burner which started acting up. I checked the Device Driver and took note that it was an MS driver from 2001. It seems strange there has never been an update and I can't even find that one on the Web to reinstall just in case it is corrupted. Any advice? Would it be safe to assume you also installed all the updates? That would include doing a Custom update that would list new drivers, if MS has them. I recently did a machine that had an older Nvidia GeForce graphics card. The MS update process had a driver update for the card that was 2004. When I went to Nvidia's site, they had a driver from 2009. I'd suggest you go to LG's site, if you haven't already done that. I've installed XP3 and all the updates and LG reports they do not provide a device driver (only a firmware update, which I have) as MS's device driver is used and they don't know if MS has updated the 2001 Device Driver. Well, that's the cool thing about some drivers. They got it right, the first time. So a date of 2001 should not scare you. If a driver is at a low enough level (just passes commands from a higher level, and doesn't do anything clever), then the same driver can last for years and years. In fact, they design hardware, like disk controller interfaces, to an existing standard, so those old drivers will continue to work. They've made hardware, so that existing drivers still work. In fact, some chipsets, would have hardware support, so drivers in Windows 98 will still work. (That's how I got Windows 98 installed, on a Core2 motherboard here.) It's the "drivers with brains" that need more frequent changes (like a graphics driver). A graphics primitive, may have more than one way that the hardware can implement it, and new drivers can do things like trade off visual quality for speed (like if the driver designer wants a higher 3DMark for the hardware). ******* The firmware in a burner, includes information on the handling of new media tags. It allows the burner, to have a policy for that new Tao Yuden or Ritek blank discs you bought. The CD/DVD/BluRay burning software, is the complicated part. In the past, an ASPI layer was used to talk to the burner, but I think they have some other way to do it now, as I seldom see questions about replacing ASPI any more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspi "A number of CD/DVD applications also continue to offer their own implementations of ASPI layer." So if the bottom driver layer, doesn't know anything about that, and the burner program installs its own ASPI, that may account for issues being resolved by updating a burner program. You really have to walk through the names of the individual driver components, to get some idea of whether their function is simple enough, to never need updates, or complex enough, to need constant attention. Where good, agreed to standards exist for hardware (like, some part of USB), there is frequently no need to do anything of that nature. The OS built-in driver is loaded, and... it just works. USB Mass Storage, is an example of a pretty damn good standard. Paul |
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Problme After Reinstalling XP-3.
Barry Bruyea wrote:
It will not read or burn DL disks. Did it read double-layer optical media before? Or is this something new that you're trying? What non-Microsoft burner software are you using now? Maybe it requires the upper/lower filter fix (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060). What is the *model* number of the LG drive? Does its specs say it supports DL media? |
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