So, I have a rather old laptop. We'll call it old faithful for now (aka Toshiba Sattelite 1800-400), but I have recently (gosh, about a year ago now) upgraded it from ME to XP. Since the upgrade, a broadband connection to the internet and windows upgrades coming through old failthful stopped working altogether. I restarted it in safe mode and deleted all the windows updates which worked, but the computer has stopped recognising the DVD-ROM drive altogether. Now I'm not massively computer literate, but I did try the windows upgrade thing which hasn't crashed the system again but didn't work, I've downloaded the driver again which hasn't worked, I've deleted it and reinstalled it a dozen times, I've tried a few different DVD softwares and I've phoned a friend. Now I'm turning to y'all. I know the player still works because it works when the computer is switched off but now I'm stuck. Old Faultful and I looking farward to your response. Toby.
just to clarify, the error code that comes up in the device manager is Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) The hardware is TEAC DV-28E-A Toby.
well go figure. I post all this nonsense, i've been trying to get the shitty little thing to work for a year and I tweak some little thing never before tweaked and it works. So ignore all of the above. It's taken me bloody ages. I'm slightly miffed.
