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    Driver Needed

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by tonyag, Mar 11, 2012.

  1. tonyag

    tonyag Newbie

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    Hi
    Does anyone have a driver for the cf-28 Mataa DVD-ROM SR-8176

    I removed it by mistake and need it to restore the Toughbook to new installation.
    Any Help would be great.

    Thank You


    Tony
     
    tonyag, Mar 11, 2012
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    db04p71 Notebook Deity

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    You should not need a driver. It should be plug and play.

    If the DVD drive is set to master, it should be recognized in the bios as secondary master and will be bootable.
     
    db04p71, Mar 11, 2012
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  3. tonyag

    tonyag Newbie

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    :) Thank You for that I will check in my Bios.
     
    tonyag, Mar 12, 2012
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  4. tonyag

    tonyag Newbie

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    Hi

    The Bios side is detecting the drive but in device manager it is saying the following.

    Driver file missing or corrupted !!! (CODE39)


    Thank You
     
    tonyag, Mar 12, 2012
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    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    Can you go into device manager and update the driver. Are you running W2000 or XP ?
     
    toughasnails, Mar 12, 2012
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    mnementh Crusty Ol' TinkerDwagon

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    The DVD part of this multidrive isn't part of the built-in driver stack for Win2K or XPSP1. If you install XPSP2 it will include the DVD drivers, but you STILL need a DVD decoder to watch DVDs on it.

    You should STILL be able to read from a CDROM in this drive without those drivers, however.

    mnem
    DVDRWTEFF?
     
    mnementh, Mar 12, 2012
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  7. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    mnem , I just finished reading about this on another forum that is why I was wondering what he was running. Like you said once they upgraded to XPSP2 the drivers were loaded. I had a problem once like that when I unistalled a game.
     
    toughasnails, Mar 12, 2012
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  8. tonyag

    tonyag Newbie

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    Hi All
    Thank you for the info..however it is not detecting the driver for this even with xpsp2 downloaded.
    I am running Windows XP Proffesional.
    Device Manager:It comes up with ! highlighted on drive and says the following. "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware.The driver may be corrupted or missing. ( Code 39)

    Thank You

    Tony
     
    tonyag, Mar 12, 2012
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  9. toughasnails

    toughasnails Toughbook Moderator Moderator

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    Kinda wondering what you were doing before this happened, were you installing any programs or deleting one's ?
     
    toughasnails, Mar 12, 2012
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  10. db04p71

    db04p71 Notebook Deity

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    Try removing the device in device manager and rebooting.
     
    db04p71, Mar 12, 2012
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    Rob Toughbook Aficionado

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    Rob, Mar 12, 2012
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    interestingfellow Notebook Deity

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    Vista....those poor people stuck using it......

    ON a side note, VLC will play DVD's and just about everything else, too. It includes all of its own codecs. Not like WMP where you have to muss about trying to diagnose, locate, and install the correct codec....
     
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    tonyag, Mar 14, 2012
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