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I won't bore you with my two week trip into Hades attempting to install XP. Suffice to say after hours on the phone with the Microsoft Engineer I had to do a fresh install of XP. Now I'm trying to reinstall my programs and get everything to work again ... BIG SIGH.
I have the SM-4 with P550, 128 RAM. DVD had worked. Works fine with CDs. It is a Toshiba DVD=ROM SD-M1212. I checked the Toshiba site and it says no drivers are needed for this. I figured it needs software so downloaded a trial version of DirectDVD.
No joy. If anyone has ANY suggestions on how I can get this working I would appreciate it VERY MUCH.
DirectX works fine.
Yes, XP is identifying the DVD player in Device Manager.
Yes, it shows the correct model number.
No yellow ? anywhere.
I removed and reinstalled it. Same result. What may be happening is that it is being identified as a CD-ROM as the driver says cdrom ... MS driver 5.1.2535.0.
Yes, I have ALL the updates except for the Virtual Machine.
I don't believe this machine has a decoder card. In looking at the orginal packing slip for this $2862 computer (ouch) I don't see anything that would refer to anything by mPact or Chromatic Research. Machine was new in July 1999. The trial version of DirectDVD says that it is XP ready. I suppose I could try some other trial version. Power DVD? Windows Media player doesn't recognize the DVD.
Any help or suggestions deeply appreciated.
I have the SM-4 with P550, 128 RAM. DVD had worked. Works fine with CDs. It is a Toshiba DVD=ROM SD-M1212. I checked the Toshiba site and it says no drivers are needed for this. I figured it needs software so downloaded a trial version of DirectDVD.
No joy. If anyone has ANY suggestions on how I can get this working I would appreciate it VERY MUCH.
DirectX works fine.
Yes, XP is identifying the DVD player in Device Manager.
Yes, it shows the correct model number.
No yellow ? anywhere.
I removed and reinstalled it. Same result. What may be happening is that it is being identified as a CD-ROM as the driver says cdrom ... MS driver 5.1.2535.0.
Yes, I have ALL the updates except for the Virtual Machine.
I don't believe this machine has a decoder card. In looking at the orginal packing slip for this $2862 computer (ouch) I don't see anything that would refer to anything by mPact or Chromatic Research. Machine was new in July 1999. The trial version of DirectDVD says that it is XP ready. I suppose I could try some other trial version. Power DVD? Windows Media player doesn't recognize the DVD.
Any help or suggestions deeply appreciated.
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