problems with my computer

[Dru22]

I was trying to use dvd decrypter and dvdshrink but wouldn't work. Stuff has been choppy on dvds. Well i was looking at the driver and under Sony DVD RW Dru-710A Properties, Driver Provider: Mircrosoft Driver Date: 7/1/2001 Driver version 5.1.2535.0 this can't be right, i looked into the windows system32 file and drivers and under cdrom it says SCSI cd rom driver, is this right? Am i using SCSI? I went to microsofts website and couldn't find a driver for a dvd rom or cd rom at all. What can i do, can someone please help me!

 

[edelbrock]

It depends on which controller on your motherboard it is plugged into. If it is plugged into a controller that is not native to the chipset then it may display as a SCSI device. I am not sure that is what it is but you may want to check. Generally you want to have your optical drives on the chipset's controller.

 

[Dru22]

what do you mean, under idea ata/atapi controllers it lists the following, NVIDIA nFORCE3 250 PArallel ATA Controller and 2 others as the same name below it. But under DVD/CD ROM drives it lists the drive as microsoft and 7/1/2001 is the date. how can i update that? i can't find it on windows update

 

[edelbrock]

The driver is the windows driver for an optical device such as a cdrom or dvd drive. That is normal. I have the same driver for all of my systems. I don't have much experience with nForce motherboards, but as an example on my P4 Asus board there is one ide channel that is native to the chipset. A drive will show up with just its name. It also has an additional IDE controller that ASUS has implemented into the board. Any drive that I add to that controller will show up as a SCSI Disc Device. I do not know why but that is the way it is on several boards I have used. I imagine that the SCSI driver is for the add on controller. Anybody else know?