DVD/CD Drive

Richie-from-the-Boro

SirDag wrote: »

I appear to be having difficulty getting into the Bios setup; the screen flashes so quickly that there is no time to see what I should be pressing. F10 gets to a place where I can adjust time & date, and also see info about computer, but that's it. constantly pressing del, achieves nothing.

Device Manager has the following yellow asterisk against:-

multimedia audio controller
pci modem
smbus controller
video controler (VGA compatible)

It does though show "hl-dt-st dvd+rw gca-4040n" when expanding DVD/CD-rom drive

- GoTo the control panel / hardware where you found '' hl-dt-st dvd+rw gca-4040n '' right click on it, delete it, ignore the warnings and cold boot ! what happens ?
- get drivers for your "" sm bus controller "", install them and do a ' cold boot ' - what happens now ?

Generally it looks like the MOBO driverset for your particular chipset is not installed at all. When you try stage 2 the "" sm bus controller "" or indeed the Video & Audio drivers they may not go in either. The purpose of uninstalling the '' hl-dt-st dvd+rw gca-4040 '' is to force it onto a new rack allocation in your O/S.

SirDag

Hi Richie,

Cold start on DVD - no joy.

Before I go any further, I have just downloaded a batch of drivers from HP's site and see if that can solve the problem.

Thanks.

Richie-from-the-Boro

SirDag wrote: »

Hi Richie,

Cold start on DVD - no joy.

Before I go any further, I have just downloaded a batch of drivers from HP's site and see if that can solve the problem.

Thanks.

Ok, M8, let us know how you get on. If your on the net try to bung SP3 on it'll kick off if the chipset drivers are missing.