LG DVD Drives

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I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working.
Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver
may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem
or are these devices working for you?

DVDRAM GSA-4167B
DVD-ROM GDR8164B

Thanks
John0
 
I have tried an LG GSA-4166B, a Sony DRU-720a and a Sony DRU 820a, and all
yield the exact same results you describe.

Based on other posts I:
1) removerd an older DVD-ROM (Sony 1621) to see if Vista would recognize the
newer ones by themselves.
2) uninstalled the drives from device manager and restarted to see if Vista
would recognize them then.

Always at start-up it sees the drives, tries to install them, and reports
that it failed.
 
Keith, excellent tip. I forgot the nightmare that anything Roxio causes with
cdroms. <G> I wish these forums could create stickies so
hardware/applications that work and don't work or any workarounds could be
posted.
 
Hi Keith

Sorry for the Hassle

But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE
but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but
still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click
save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the
upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and
lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.

can you help in any way

Malky
 
I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the Collecting
Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for my
DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have
drivers.
GDR-8164B DVD Drive

Help?
 
I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the Collecting
Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for my
DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have
drivers.
GDR-8164B DVD Drive

Help?
 
Try updating the firmware at the LG web site


GettoPhilosopher said:
I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the
Collecting
Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for
my
DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have
drivers.
GDR-8164B DVD Drive

Help?
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