lg dvd drives

I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

I have tried an LG GSA-4166B, a Sony DRU-720a and a Sony DRU 820a, and all yield the exact same results you describe.
Based on other posts I: 1) removerd an older DVD-ROM (Sony 1621) to see if Vista would recognize the newer ones by themselves. 2) uninstalled the drives from device manager and restarted to see if Vista would recognize them then.
Always at start-up it sees the drives, tries to install them, and reports that it failed.
"J Smith" wrote:

I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:

I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

Keith, excellent tip. I forgot the nightmare that anything Roxio causes with cdroms. <G> I wish these forums could create stickies so hardware/applications that work and don't work or any workarounds could be posted.

Kieth that worked perfectly! Thanks for the assistance.
"Keith" wrote:

I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

Thanks Keith it worked. That is one less issue I have now.
John0
"Keith" wrote in message

I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

Hi Keith
Sorry for the Hassle
But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.
can you help in any way
Malky
"Keith" wrote:

I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

No need to reply to last message fixed it was not reading it right sorry
"Malky" wrote:

Hi Keith
Sorry for the Hassle
But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.
can you help in any way
Malky
"Keith" wrote:
I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the Collecting Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for my DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have drivers. GDR-8164B DVD Drive
Help?
"Malky" wrote:

No need to reply to last message fixed it was not reading it right sorry
"Malky" wrote:
Hi Keith
Sorry for the Hassle
But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.
can you help in any way
Malky
"Keith" wrote:
I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the Collecting Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for my DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have drivers. GDR-8164B DVD Drive
Help?
"Malky" wrote:

No need to reply to last message fixed it was not reading it right sorry
"Malky" wrote:
Hi Keith
Sorry for the Hassle
But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.
can you help in any way
Malky
"Keith" wrote:
I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0

Try updating the firmware at the LG web site
"GettoPhilosopher" wrote in message

I cannot get my PC to install Vista because of this error: In the Collecting Information part of the installation, it says that it needs a driver for my DVD drive, and won't let me continue until I give it one...LG doesn't have drivers. GDR-8164B DVD Drive
Help?
"Malky" wrote:
No need to reply to last message fixed it was not reading it right sorry
"Malky" wrote:
Hi Keith
Sorry for the Hassle
But I have the same problem with my LG GSA-4166B DVD WRITER WITH LIGHTSCRIBE but I have followed the steps to do with upperfilters and lowerfilters but still no luck but when I get to the point about typing in SAVEDKEY and click save it says to click on REG_MULTI_SZ I cant find it to get to the upperfilters so I had to search for it and then delete the upperfilters and lowerfilters and then rebooted but still no dvd drive.
can you help in any way
Malky
"Keith" wrote:
I had this problem as well, do the upperfilters / lowerfilters fix from windows xp and it fixes the problem (at least it did for me after upgrading from XP)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553#XSLTH3121121124120121120120
"J Smith" wrote:
I have 2 LG DVD drives one is a writer both of which are not working. Error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" Does anyone else have this problem or are these devices working for you?
DVDRAM GSA-4167B DVD-ROM GDR8164B
Thanks John0