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| Thread ID: 64105 | 2005-12-03 07:13:00 | Help have a Hp Dvd writer 300i | lisamarie01 (6731) | Press F1 |
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| 409747 | 2005-12-04 10:35:00 | If the writer is under guarantee, I suggest that if you have had no success with the updated drivers on offer, you take it back to the shop you bought it from to get the performance verified, or a replacement. It might be a dud. If you bought it second-hand, there is an even stronger possibility that it is a dud. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 409748 | 2005-12-04 18:04:00 | HOW DO YOU mean 'dont have any to send to nz'...............that's the cd they're referring to ..........so what if they dont wanna post one..........its doesn't matter..........these files on that page are what you'd get anywy.....have you downloaded them and installed them ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 409749 | 2005-12-04 19:06:00 | You sure this isnt the burner (h10025.www1.hp.com) | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 409750 | 2005-12-04 19:17:00 | ........already posted that page and links .......... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 409751 | 2005-12-04 19:34:00 | As bartsdadhomer has said you don’t need any drivers for a DVD drive. I suggest you remove all the HP DVD software, and drivers you may have installed, and find a different burning program, I like Nero. Note burning software is different than firmware, software is a program that you use to do stuff on your computer, firmware is a small set of instructions that you flash to the DVD drive so it knows how to behave, drivers are instructions that the operating system uses to talk to the device/DVD. On the hp site, you can download the firmware no worries, if you are trying to get "HP DVD Writer dvd300i Installation Disc Set" they will need to post this to you, but you shouldnt need these discs to get the drive working. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 409752 | 2005-12-04 19:37:00 | HOW DO YOU mean 'dont have any to send to nz'...............that's the cd they're referring to ..........so what if they dont wanna post one..........its doesn't matter..........these files on that page are what you'd get anywy.....have you downloaded them and installed them ? there is no option to download any drivers the only option for her writer is a cd and they don't send to nz There are other files there for different models but from what i've read on other forums they won't work As I posted earlier, all the searching I did only found problems with this drive Stacks of people were complaining the software for this drive caused all sorts of problems with their system There's no telling some people |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 409753 | 2005-12-04 23:09:00 | Again what operating system are we talking about? You sure you dont mean the adaptec aspi drivers? Some programs (even if u use XP) need these drivers, sometimes for burning. I would try different software. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 409754 | 2005-12-26 03:14:00 | im running windows xp, i got the software from the guy i bought the drive from but its still reading as a 300n, not a 300i as said on the drive, for some reason it wont install drivers as a 300i ??? | lisamarie01 (6731) | ||
| 409755 | 2005-12-26 04:33:00 | have u tried this yet h10025.www1.hp.com |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 409756 | 2005-12-26 11:45:00 | I have a HP branded but CDRW drive. Its parallel from those chunky cases if you jack open it its actually a internal IDE drive, haha. Anyway, my drive is the same thing, it used to work but now it works to read CDs in win98 but if on winXP it reads but sometimes it can be choosy and halt the system until the CD is pulled out or if that does not open a force restart is required. Within any windows version if you try to open a unclosed CD like a blank CDR or CDRW disc it will crash the system. Likewise if you try to make a CD it crashes. I say buy another one, I don't trust HP that much, same goes with many pple on this forum. I think most drives don't need drivers in winXP if it reads it should write as well. WinXP I heard has writing software as well, if not there are Nero and Adaptec softwares available. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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