problem installing driver

help....my driver used to work but not now.ive tried everything but to no
avail,if anyone can help i would be soooooooooooooo grateful. the details of
the driver are Optiarc DVD RW AD-5530A ATA Device i keep getting error code
39 whatever that means and microsoft is the manufacter....thanks

mentalas1,

I found this. Take a look to see whether is could be helpful:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

You never know without trying. Your situation doesn't look like a driver
problem, because ATA devices usually don't have drivers outside of those
native to Windows. What you are showing as a driver appears to be the
description of your optical drive.

Let us know how you do.
--
freddy


"mentalas1" wrote:

> help....my driver used to work but not now.ive tried everything but to no
> avail,if anyone can help i would be soooooooooooooo grateful. the details of
> the driver are Optiarc DVD RW AD-5530A ATA Device i keep getting error code
> 39 whatever that means and microsoft is the manufacter....thanks

thank you,that looks very complicted for me but ive saved the page to my
favourites and ive got a mate who knows a lot more than me about computers so
il ask him to have a bash for me lol

"freddy" wrote:

> mentalas1,
>
> I found this. Take a look to see whether is could be helpful:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
>
> You never know without trying. Your situation doesn't look like a driver
> problem, because ATA devices usually don't have drivers outside of those
> native to Windows. What you are showing as a driver appears to be the
> description of your optical drive.
>
> Let us know how you do.
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "mentalas1" wrote:
>
> > help....my driver used to work but not now.ive tried everything but to no
> > avail,if anyone can help i would be soooooooooooooo grateful. the details of
> > the driver are Optiarc DVD RW AD-5530A ATA Device i keep getting error code
> > 39 whatever that means and microsoft is the manufacter....thanks