Cant find driver for my Vista DVD/CD RW

jdpolaski · May 20, 2008

Can't find a driver for my Optiarc DVD RW AD -7560A ATA Device. can anyone help

Chappy · May 21, 2008

Hi

Optical drives do not require drivers in Vista to do the basic read and burn tasks (for CD"s). To burn DVD's or play them, you only need a 3rd party program like Roxio Easy Media Creator, Nero, or a DVD viewing program like WinDVD or the like.

Is there something happening that makes you think you need drivers?

dmex · May 22, 2008

jdpolaski said:
Can't find a driver for my Optiarc DVD RW AD -7560A ATA Device. can anyone help

Hi JD,

You might need to update the firmware on your DVD drive...Vista will not use any older DVD drives that support bypassing DRM copy protections.

This is US law that Microsoft must follow.

Steven

frankieboy13 · Jun 15, 2008

how do you do that

Chappy · Jun 16, 2008

I can't find anything on that model number, even at the Sony sites around th world.

Again...just what is happening, or Not happening to make you think you need to udgrade the firmware anyway? It's very possible that this would not be the fix anyway, if you're even having a problem, and that's the ONLY reason that you'd be flashing the firmware to start with. Problems with a Firmware flash can make the drive useless, just like a failed BIOS flash so it's best to be totally sure you need to do this before doing it, if there even is an update that is.

frankieboy13 · Jun 16, 2008

in my device manager it has a yellow triangle w error. it's not on my computer screen and just will not play anything. i did everything i know-uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer. i went to all locations on google and manufacture

ripbox · Jun 16, 2008

Optical drives do not require any drivers other than the one provided natively by the Vista OS. Vista will provide native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk. Anything else requires 3rd. party software, ie: Nero or Easy Cd Creator, WinDVD or PowerDVD

i did find this hotfix... hope it helps

KB930194

A computer uses an SiI PATA chip does not recognize an attached optical drive as a drive that supports recording after you install Windows Vista.

dmex · Jun 16, 2008

The DVDDecrypter program has an option to check for DVD Drive Firmware updates, I asked because I know some DVD drives using RPC1 Firmware will not work with Vista`s DRM system and prevent the drives use within WIndows...

goto Tools> Drive> Check Firmware Update in DvdDecrypter

DONT download any firmware, just paste the webpage link here and we can check what one you might/might not need...

Steven

schweppes79 · Jun 19, 2008

frankieboy13 said:
in my device manager it has a yellow triangle w error. it's not on my computer screen and just will not play anything. i did everything i know-uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer. i went to all locations on google and manufacture

follow these steps and this will correct the problem

1) click start and type regedit in the search box and press enter and click continue when prompted.

2) expand hkey local machine

3) expand system

4) expand currentcontrolset

5) expand control

6) expand class

7) scroll down till you find this key entry {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} then click on it but dont expand it!!

8) to the right you will see information list by name,type and data. if there are any upper or lower filters highlight each one and press delete key and remove them, you can also right click to delete. once this is done restart your pc and your drive will be back in my computer.

:cool:

johngalt · Jun 19, 2008

That won't apply here, schweppes....

dmex · Jun 20, 2008

johngalt said:
That won't apply here, schweppes....

John`s right, unless the driver is working the upperfilters don't cause a problem :rolleyes:

Steven

joshua_0316 · Aug 3, 2008

thank you for the advise... it really works! great!

schweppes79 said:
frankieboy13 said:

in my device manager it has a yellow triangle w error. it's not on my computer screen and just will not play anything. i did everything i know-uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer. i went to all locations on google and manufacture

Click to expand...

follow these steps and this will correct the problem

1) click start and type regedit in the search box and press enter and click continue when prompted.

2) expand hkey local machine

3) expand system

4) expand currentcontrolset

5) expand control

6) expand class

7) scroll down till you find this key entry {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} then click on it but dont expand it!!

8) to the right you will see information list by name,type and data. if there are any upper or lower filters highlight each one and press delete key and remove them, you can also right click to delete. once this is done restart your pc and your drive will be back in my computer.

rive0108 · Aug 9, 2008

schweppes79 said:
frankieboy13 said:

...uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer...

Click to expand...

It is not a firmware issue, and Optiarc Optical drives have full driver support in Vista.

Sounds like the optical drive may be bad. Have you tried to replace it?
Uninstalling the device under device manager, Restarting and letting windows install the drivers for the found hardware usually works on my wife's system, but apparently you have already tried this.

Only other thing I can suggest is you may have system corruption/deletion issues. Try restoring to a time when the drive functioned, and then unistall it in device manager, and restart computer (if neccessary).

bnathanb · Sep 3, 2008

OMG!

Thankyou ever so much! It worked! I have just got my first laptop for my birthday, and the cd was working before, and then it just stopped! I did my research and it apparently happens a lot to the make of my laptop. How do you know that? Why does it happen?

Thanks again,

Nathan

schweppes79 said:
frankieboy13 said:

in my device manager it has a yellow triangle w error. it's not on my computer screen and just will not play anything. i did everything i know-uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer. i went to all locations on google and manufacture

Click to expand...

follow these steps and this will correct the problem

1) click start and type regedit in the search box and press enter and click continue when prompted.

2) expand hkey local machine

3) expand system

4) expand currentcontrolset

5) expand control

6) expand class

7) scroll down till you find this key entry {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} then click on it but dont expand it!!

8) to the right you will see information list by name,type and data. if there are any upper or lower filters highlight each one and press delete key and remove them, you can also right click to delete. once this is done restart your pc and your drive will be back in my computer.

Simors · Mar 15, 2009

OMG!
I have the same problem.
It really works! great!
Thank you ever so much!

schweppes79 said:
frankieboy13 said:

in my device manager it has a yellow triangle w error. it's not on my computer screen and just will not play anything. i did everything i know-uninstall, reinstall,update and disable and re-able. i even took it out and restart my computer. i went to all locations on google and manufacture

Click to expand...

follow these steps and this will correct the problem

1) click start and type regedit in the search box and press enter and click continue when prompted.

2) expand hkey local machine

3) expand system

4) expand currentcontrolset

5) expand control

6) expand class

7) scroll down till you find this key entry {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} then click on it but dont expand it!!

8) to the right you will see information list by name,type and data. if there are any upper or lower filters highlight each one and press delete key and remove them, you can also right click to delete. once this is done restart your pc and your drive will be back in my computer.

Sham · Feb 17, 2010

ty ty ty schweppes79 ur the bomb it worked!!!!!OMG Thank u

follow these steps and this will correct the problem

1) click start and type regedit in the search box and press enter and click continue when prompted.

2) expand hkey local machine

3) expand system

4) expand currentcontrolset

5) expand control

6) expand class

7) scroll down till you find this key entry {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} then click on it but dont expand it!!

8) to the right you will see information list by name,type and data. if there are any upper or lower filters highlight each one and press delete key and remove them, you can also right click to delete. once this is done restart your pc and your drive will be back in my computer.

:cool:

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