Acer 1208A-137 CDROM driver for winXP, anyone have any?

**nzgfxguru** · April 20th, 2005, 05:15 AM

Acer 1208A-137 CDROM (manufactured May 2001) driver for winXP, does anyone have one? Or is this CDROM not supported by winXP?

I have an issue with one, it will power up fine but when I try to access the drive through winME and winXP there is nothing there. It does not see the CD's inside.

Please help

**shamus** · April 20th, 2005, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by nzgfxguru

Acer 1208A-137 CDROM (manufactured May 2001) Or is this CDROM not supported by winXP?

It would appear so. The only drivers I could find for that were for Win98.Does it show up in your BIOS? Have you run the compatability test on the XP setup disk? Might get some info from that.

**jitBob** · April 20th, 2005, 09:09 AM

It should work fine with the default Microsoft driver. Have you tried another cd-rom in this system? Do you have the correct board drivers installed? Most current Bios update?

**nzgfxguru** · April 20th, 2005, 07:07 PM

Thanks for the replies guys, it does show in BIOS, and it also shows in Windows. The problem is I cannot access it in windows or in DOS.

I have tried it in 3 other PC's and it fails in each of them as well...they are running winXP Pro, winME and win98.

I have successfully run two different CDROM's in the affected PC so it is not the IDE, BIOS or mobo setups at fault.

I think this is a hardware issue. The CDROM must be faulty.