Hi everyone, I hope this is the right place for help?

[BathColin]

Hi all.
I'm hoping this is the place where all my problems will be answered. I've just re-hashed an old computer for a small relative and found out that the driver for the dvd-rom have, in that typical windows way, dissappeared! the dvd-rom is a samsung dvd-rom sd-612. If anyone out there has the driver for this particular model, please can I have it. I'll love you forever and so will little rosie.
thanks in advance to anyone who can help us out.
regards
Colin.

ps. I've tried all the obvious routes, manufacturer, oem, driverguide.com etc. as per usual cos it's not a current model they don't wanna know. whatever happened to customer service eh?

 

[woody]

Welcome to the forum! Drivers are automatically installed by the operating system, no need to search.
The only way they go missing is because of hardware, or software conflicts. Please give us more info, need operating system, burning software installed, computer specs.

 

[Duracell]

like Woody says: no extra drivers needed/available, the M$ standard drivers installed by Windows are O.K.;

Greetings from
Duracell

 

[LTR12101B]

If the drive is on the secondary IDE cable, and the secondary controller has gone missing, this usually happens if you are loading Win98(SE) on a motherboard that's too recent for it to fully recognise - in that case, it's the Intel chipset (INF) update for INTEL chipset motherboards, or the appropriate chipset/IDE driver for any other make - Sis, VIA, AMD (AMD chipset, not an AMD CPU on another chipset), Nvidia (Nforce chipset, not Nvidia video card).

Does BIOS see it at startup?
Does device manager show the drive (in CD-ROM devices)
If not, does it show a Primary and Secondary IDE controller - if it shows one PCI based controller and one "Standard IDE/ESDI" - then that is definitely the bug I'm thinking of.

 

[DickyDick]

Does BIOS see it at startup?
Does device manager show the drive (in CD-ROM devices)
If not, does it show a Primary and Secondary IDE controller - if it shows one PCI based controller and one "Standard IDE/ESDI" - then that is definitely the bug I'm thinking of.[/QUOTE]

And if so just delete the drive reboot and it will find new hardware, should be that simple