Recent content by Badblood

Yes. When the new graphics card was installed Windows went back to a 'basic adapter'. Fine once the AMD card drivers were installed properly.

Monitor is perfectly capable but if Windows can't find a valid driver it falls back to a crappy default. It is fine now.

I was going to solve this if it killed me and I still have a Toshiba Libretto with Windows 95 on it that I am trying to get working with mini Linux. ... Turns out I need to eat some serious humble pie. I was convinced that the drive was fully functional because every time I fully uninstalled...

Good shout but new DVD RW drives are £20 so not a major outlay. Ironically I have another drive of the same model type in the loft but it is an old IDE drive and I couldn't be bothered with the faff. Tried a USB connected drive and no problem. Changed the SATA cables and power leads but no...

Thanks for all the feedback. I will buy a new drive and try it out. Difficult to pin down exactly what is happening as there are so many variables but I appreciate all the suggestions. Watch this space.

Thanks all. I didn't mean SCSI - I meant SATA - too many late nights. SCSI was *the* thing back in the day but then that was back when we gathered round at work to watch a 10Mb hard drive installed - I kid you not. Think the drive might just be too darn old... problem is I have now mucked...

Suddenly occurs to me that the changes for UEFI were also necessary - could that be anything to do with it. Straw, grasp...

That is the kind of thing I am looking for - surely though the 32 bit and 64 bit driver are in the same package (cdrom.sys) how do you foprce x86 operation? Mine is definitely an OEM Samsung drive but hard to tell what model. Win 11 describes as SH-222BB

Definitely not - it reads a DVD perfectly if I uninstall. Then will not read any other DVDs. CDs are fine. This is DEFINITELY a software/firmware issue

Thanks both. I am just updating to 22h2 to see if that helps. I will try the scans but I actually took the cdrom.sys away (took ownership, move etc.) and let Windows re-create it. No luck. Can't see that the firmware is the issue as was OK under 10 and it can't be the lasers since if I...

Thank you. Seems to be any DVD. Nothing showing in explorer. The drive shows up in Disk Management with "No media" but the trying to access the drive with a DVD inserted shows this: With a CD, no problem... If I uninstall the DVD drive and re-boot it reads the DVD one time only. No idea...

Hi all, hoping I can get some help. I have a head scratching problem. I have been using and building Windows PCs for 25 years so I am not a newbie but this has me puzzled I have a DVD writer that is perfectly functional, however since upgrading to Win 11 (probably - I haven't used the DVD...