HELLO
I HAVE A INTERNAL DVD WRITER DUAL LAYER
MODEL:
HL-DT-ST-DVDRRW GWA 4164B
I DONT KNOW WHO IS THE MANUFACTURER ?AND AND I SEARCH FOR RHE DRIVER AND THE FIRMWARE FOR THIS PRODUCT.
THE BEGENNING OF THE PROBLEM IS THE DEVICE CAN ONLY READ &WRITE CD's AND I REMOVE THE DRIVER .PLEASE HELP ME
THANKS A LOT
Have you tried the latest v1.05 firmware?
http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/ShowDescription.asp?SoftwareGUID=CB38A987-26EA-45FB-9791-82B279E0A39F
Oddly enough, you don't need drivers for the CD/DVD drives to work. They aren't even recognized unless you have a non-microsoft burning program, like Roxio or NTI CD and DVD maker. Sounds to me like your DVD burning program may be corrupted. Those programs are worth updating. Find out what burning software you have-- its easy and FREE. Download Belarc Advisor, which not only tells you everything in your computer, with model numbers for hardware and all of your software (with their unique codes), including the manumacturers, and will also inform you if you are missing any needed Windows updates. Once you know what you have, if it came with the computer, seek an update at the computer manufacturer's website, as it may be a special program not related to the burning software purchased from the software manufacturer---go to their website for upgrades. Let me know if you run into trouble.
To Tom Scott--these drives are slaves, they do not need drivers. You have to have a good CD-DVD burning program for them to work. Your program may have become corrupted. Identify it in your programs, or with Belarc advisor, and reinstall it from your computer manufacturer's help website. That really should fix it.
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I got a similar problem it can read purchased cd's but not blank cd's and it can read burned dvd's and not purchased dvd's i have upgraded it to 1.05 and still nothing
Dump the drive and get an new one it will never work
I had the same problem solved it with new firmwire
I ended up replacing the CD/DVD read- writer , as I was informed that this behavior indicates that it is dying , and this particular model was a cheap piece of garbage. This information was given to me from a local computer repair shop, who had had many pass through their doors; and after attempting everything else, replacing the drive tended to be the cheapest and easiest solution.
The Solution #4 posted on Mar 15, 2008 by
exon33
Expert
That is ********..... the "Belarc Advisor" tells you nothing about DVD RW drive at all. I wasted my time and bandwidth to look and download it for nothing.
I think this bloke is a "Guru" of some ********.
I also have the same DVD drive (RWA-4164B) it doesn't recognize any DVD but only sees CD.
Does anybody actually know anything in this forum to fix it, the drive is only 31 days old
If you have a good burning program, than wath?
i have the same burnig program on my laptop and there it works fine.
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got same prob here buddy x_x
got anything ?
I haven't drivers for grabadora
I have the same product, but it only reads music CD; when I try to install a printer or a camera and I introduce the CD driver the CD WR doesn't read.
no lee nada absolutamente nada pero no quiero llevarlo al tecnico todavia .queria saber si algun master pueda alludarme a repararla
play as cd but didnot as dvd
HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B
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I've got the very same comment for a while now, and I'm starting to fear that now it starts not to read CD's as well, for ususally when I'm playing a CD-ROM game my whole computer crashes.
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