LG HL-DT-ST DvD-Rom GDR8162B Driver

Hi there, My dvd is lacking a driver, yea, (Dont ask) and I was wodering, if I could possibly get one from here.

LG HL-DT-ST DvD-Rom GDR8162B Driver

Thanks, Matt.

OK, give us some more details about your pc, and tell us why you think you need a driver?

Same problem here.

I have a 8 month old computer.
Pentium 4 CPU 2GHz
512 RAM
MS WinXP (Home Edition)
version 2002
Service Pack 2

I have 2 DVD/CD stations:

I Have 1 DVD/CD player (LG HL-DT-ST DvD-Rom GDR8162B) !does't work anymore!
and 1 DVD/CD player+writer (_NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A)

also another diskname for which I don't have a clue why it is there.
(AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device)


The problem I have is that one day my DVD/CD player
didn't work anymore.


Can sombody help?

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Originally Posted by Merrin

also another diskname for which I don't have a clue why it is there.
(AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device) ...

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Welcome to WD forums Merrin :).

So that is most probably a virtual device driver (so a bit of s/w pretends to be a cd/dvd so you can 'mount disk images') installed by a product called alcohol 120, do you recognise this ?

Given all your symptoms, I'd start troubleshooting this one, by reading the section headed 'class filter drivers' on my sticky in this forum & follow the advice given in the M$ KB that is quoted.

Thank you for the quick reply.
I remember installing a programme called alcohol 120. But I thought I got rid of this. It isn't showing anymore in Program Files...

I will go and read what I have to do on "class filter drivers"

cheers

Well, very interesting.
I see there is a programme calles Alcohol 120% in the Start-menu.
But when I wan't to remove this with "uninstall", it doesn't work. I
guess it got deleted by a anti-virus programme but I have still some
residu left on my machine.

And if I just deleted this virtual DVD ...?

Did you try deleting the registry keys as described ? That normally fixes matters..

It sounds like somehow your copy of alcohol 120 has gotten managled somehow, so probably the simplest method is reinstalling & then uninstalling to get rid of whatever 'bits' have gotten left behind for whatever reason.

What a bloody stupid task to get rid of Alcohol 120%. But I got it from my system and this virtual drive is gone too. But if that wasn't enough, I cant find a driver for LG HL-DT-ST DvD-Rom GDR8162B.

I deleted the dvd/cd player and rebooted, but it still didn't work. So I am trying to find the driver, but without any luck.

:-(

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Originally Posted by Merrin

I deleted the dvd/cd player and rebooted, but it still didn't work. So I am trying to find the driver, but without any luck...

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Did you also delete the upper & lower filter keys as described in the kb ?

CD\DVDs don't have manufacturer specific drivers, like other bits of hardware can, windows has standard files perform the reading function. Burning programs (& virtual drive programs) add their own proprietry 'class filter drivers' to add functionality, i.e. writing in this case, which are called from the registry keys that need resetting as described in the KB.

I have deleted the upper filter. There was no lower filter in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318

This is what is left in this registry folder:
- (standard)
- Class
- EnumPropPages32
- Icon
- Installer32
- NoInstallClass
- SilentInstall
- TroubleShooter-0

There are 4 subfolders:
- 0001 (standard)
- 0002 (standard)
- Properties (standard)
- 0000 (DriverDate, DriverDateData, DriverDesc, DriverVersion, EnumPropPages32, InfPath, InfSection, MatchingDeviceId, ProviderName)

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Originally Posted by Merrin

Same problem here...I Have 1 DVD/CD player (LG HL-DT-ST DvD-Rom GDR8162B) !does't work anymore!
and 1 DVD/CD player+writer (_NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A)..

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So we've hopefully eliminated alcohol 120 as a possible issue, but we never actually tested the unit - when you say 'doesn't work anymore' - I need that spelling out ... does it show in device manager ? will it read say cd's but dvd's ? etc (as a 'fixer' I do much of this stuff on 'auto-pilot' & sometimes forget to ask at the right times! :) )

When you put a DVD or CD in, you hear the disk working, but your pc doesn't detect it. When I go into the properties, he reads that "the disk is working fine". When you click on the disk icon it reads "you have to put in disk".

The drivers are:
cdrom.sys
imapi.sys
redbook.sys
storprop.dll

So it shows as a drive letter in my computer & seems ok in device manager, but fails to recognise any disk whatsoever when in windows ?

So back to my sticky again, lets try the 'cd boot test' now - the idea of this being to test your unit outside windoze, so that we can eliminate 'software madness' as much as possible, as there's lots of things can go wrong in windows - I/we need to know if you can either boot from a system cd (if you've got one handy) or be able to read a data cd in dos (the sticky details all of this :)).

A cd\dvd lens cleaning kit is often worth a shot at this point too ..

hmmm, I put in winXP installation disk.
He tries to boot from cd. But after a while he jumps on cpu and starts loading windows from pc.

Does this mean I can buy myself a new DVD-player ...?

It looks that way, cd boot test is pretty reliable ... least it was the player & not the writer ;)