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    help! w3j optical-drive drivers

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by battlemage, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. battlemage

    battlemage Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all. I turned on my laptop this morning only to discover that my optical drive was missing from the "my computer" window. I tried removing the drive and putting back in, then restarting windows..still nothing. So i went over to my control panel to browse my harware and, sure enough, my optical drive had a nice yellow exclamation point on it. Apparently windows cant find the drivers for it. I tried looking online on the Asus support page..no luck. I tried the manufacturer (the model is TSSTCorp TS-L632D which im pretty sure is made by samsung)...still no luck. And i obviously cant use the drivers disk that came with the laptop.

    So..If anyone out there knows where I can find the drivers (and I specify drivers not firmware update) or if any w3j owners with the same OD can upload their own drivers, I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
     
    battlemage, Nov 15, 2006
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  2. robohgedhang

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    Isn't the driver included in Windows? I don't think we need a special third-party driver for the optical drive.
     
    robohgedhang, Nov 15, 2006
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  4. robohgedhang

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    Hi battlemage, I just checked the Driver File Details of the TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-632D, and it listed the driver files as follows:

    1. C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys
    2. C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\imapi.sys
    3. C:\WINDOWS\system32\DRIVERS\redbook.sys
    4. C:\WINDOWS\system32\storprop.dll

    All come from Microsoft so it's clear that the drivers are installed when I installed Windows XP for the first time.

    Maybe your Windows is corrupt? Maybe you need to do a search for the 4 files above in your HDD?

    And Mr. Pigeon, I think the link you provided is for a firmware, not a driver... CMIIW...
     
    robohgedhang, Nov 15, 2006
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  5. battlemage

    battlemage Notebook Consultant

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    Update: I uninstalled the drivers, restarted the computer, let windows intall the drivers automatically (since it did recognize it), i thought i was done...but that was not the case. I still couldnt find my OD drive, and I had the same message saying that windows can find the files or that they were corrupt.. This is really annoying me as Im not even sure what caused this problem..
     
    battlemage, Nov 15, 2006
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  6. cheeroke

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    Hi all, I got this TS-L632D and my WinXP can see it but I cannot read dvd, I can write but on this pleasure is ended. Nov I got AS99 firmware. Can anyone help me?
    P.S. I got W3j WinXp pro SP2.
     
    cheeroke, Mar 4, 2007
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