Posted December 7, 201410 yr I am looking for this driver but only finding the firmware, can't find it on the net, help?
December 7, 201410 yr FPCH Admin Is this a CD/DVD ROM, Mike? What OS and what model Dell? The drivers for these optical drives are all pretty much generic. ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
December 7, 201410 yr FPCH Admin What's the service tag, Mike? ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
December 7, 201410 yr Author No service tag sticker on this old unit Cindy, also the rom in question is not the original rom it's a spare I had here replacing the dead drive in the unit.
December 7, 201410 yr FPCH Admin Do you have bangs in the Device Manager? Is the CD/DVD drive not working? ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
December 7, 201410 yr FPCH Admin In the Device Manager, what is the hardware ID and the vendor number? ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~~~Robert McCloskey~~
December 7, 201410 yr Author Oh BTW, I wish to reload XP but it doesn't have a USB boot option which is why I need to fix the rom issue, strange thing is the 2 drives on this unit shows drivers not installed, I changed the IDE cable so my guess is maybe the controller is damaged? Only way I'll know is if I can get the driver for any of the roms, tried looking for the first two but couldn't find those.
December 11, 201410 yr Mike reverse the cable connections from the cable to the drives. If that doesn't work do you have another ide cable to try?
December 11, 201410 yr Author I had already tried changing the cable before posting here Rich, I junked that old pc since no USB option to reload XP and it's obvious the rom problem is a mobo issue.
December 11, 201410 yr Agreed we can't win them all Mike. What I was thinking was remembering that the ide cable was cable select where one cable was master and one slave depending on the order they were plugged in so they might show but not work if incorrectly plugged but more likley was bad mobo anyway. There also were cables with double sets of wires in them for newer drives but I think they only affected hard drives anyway.
