Sharp CE-CD03 drivers

**bookmarkmns** · July 13th, 2007, 07:46 AM

Has anyone got drivers at all for this external CD-Rom drive. I'm after Win2k. Sharp CE-CD03.

I've had no joy searching but...

Thanks in advance

Mark

**NooNoo** · July 13th, 2007, 08:34 AM

For internal optical drives the same drivers that drive your hard drives drive the optical drives!

If it's external usb or firewire, it should be separately powered.

The only exception is older parallel port external drives or if it came with a laptop. From looking around it looks like it came with a Sharp notebook, but Sharp UK have nothing about it.

What notebook if any?

**bookmarkmns** · July 13th, 2007, 09:55 AM

Hi NooNoo

it's a Sharp AX20 laptop. I've found all the drivers except for this. It's mini connection, SCSi? No power lead, just the one captive lead. Irritatingly it works to install Win2K but not after OS installed.

It's pre Win2k as a BIOS update is needed.

I've tried Googling, Sharp and used Copernic Agent so far with no luck.

Thanks for looking!

Mark

**NooNoo** · July 13th, 2007, 11:06 AM

OK, I did guess right

When you have it installed on 2k, does it show up in device manager? That interface should allow it to just work. It may be there is an error code that can be fixed.

If it doesn't show up in device manager, does it show up as attached in the bios/setup?

**bookmarkmns** · July 13th, 2007, 11:31 AM

Nothing at all shows, NooNoo.

No power light under Win2k, no entry in Device manager.

Mark

**NooNoo** · July 13th, 2007, 11:58 AM

have you done a bios update? got some w2k drivers and bios here

**bookmarkmns** · September 3rd, 2007, 02:51 AM

Hi Noo-Noo
Please accept my apologies that I was not able to reply earlier to your comments. I really did appreciate your help and this belated apology I hope shows that I did not forget your work.
Life got in the way and I've not been able to get to this forum.

I'd also found the BIOS and drivers but the problem was caused in the end by a fault on the CD-Rom unit captive cable which disconnects if the cable was twisted. Odd and I should have spotted it earlier - a twist of 5 degrees and it was gone.

Lovely little machine though limited by memory and CPU.

Thanks once again.

Mark