Driver update for Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A

[madjim- with the Lord]

Originally Posted by Vince Cravotta

Dale, The driver and or firmware site that Bryan gave was for the 7190A burner. I never got the download because the application stated that the firmware I had tried to download and install was for a 7190A burner and that my burner is a 7201A burner. I have never heard that burner number until the message that the download came up with. I went to my device manager and sure enough the number of the Optiarc in my computer now is listed as a Optiarc RW AD 7201A.
I did try to roll back the driver and received the message that there had not been any new drivers installed. How can a burner change its number?
These things are driving me out of my mind.

Vince.
Welcome to the world of PC's, I'm surprised I have any hair left on my head from my 10 years of working with them.

I see two things you can try. One is to try and get windows to read the drive as a 7120 like you say it always has. The other is to go ahead and install the firmware for the 7121 and see if it works.

Being the firmware is in a zip file, when you download it, save the file to your hard drive first and unzip it before you do the install.

If this does not work, uninstall the firmware then try disabling the drive then restart your computer and see if the drive number changes. (Either way you will have to re-activate the drive in order to test it. )

Tryin' to help!

Jim