WinXP CD-RW/DVD-RW problem

[Brave01Heart]

Hi

I have two CD Drives installed (1 x LG CD-RW & 1 x LG DVD-RW) and both were working fine right up until I upgraded my LG CD-RW Drive. I have just installed a 'new' CD-RW Drive as Master on IDE2 and the DVD-RW is SLAVE.

I normally like to keep the drive firmware up to date and after checking the
LG website, I downloaded the latest firmware (v1.05 for my 'new' LG GCE-8526. I connected the drive as Master and the only device on IDE2 and after closing all running programs, I executed the .exe file.

I got a message saying "wait a moment" followed by "CD Drive model does not match". The problem is that the drive "does match" and the LG GCE-8526B is shown correctly by the BIOS and during POST, also it's correctly displayed in
Device Manager and the drives do work (i.e. tray opens and shuts). I've
upgraded the firmware of all my LG drives in the past and had no problems,
so I can't quite understand what's going on here.

Prior to installing the 'new' CD-RW drive, I could insert a 'boot disk' and both
the drives and the CD-ROM device drivers would be found without problems but, since installing the new LG GCE-8526B, when I now insert the 'bootdisk', I get the following :

"No drivers found, aborting installation".

and

"No valid CD-ROM device drivers selected".

WinXP has it's own 'built-in' ATAPI drivers so no drivers are normally
needed but I think that since installing the new drive, they have gone
'walkabouts'.

BTW, when I installed the new drive, I updated the MBR and reset the "system config" but I still get the above boot message and still can't upgrade the drive firmware. If I re-install XP, then doing that will sort out the problem
but that is a bit of a drastic measure and I feel there must be a more simpler answer to this.

In short, I figure that the drivers need to be shown/installed so that the devices are found when using a bootdisk and I would then like to complete the firmware upgrade on my new CD-RW drive, from v1.04 to v1.05

Can anyone help please?

Regards

Brave01Heart

[DopeWeasel]

Only thing I can think of right away is that you either have the wrong firmware package or you don't have the drive that you think that you do. There should be a way to check the serial number on the drive to make sure you didn't get duped. It's not impossible that LG put the wrong drive in your box before shipment, or if you bought it OEM it is possible that you got a fake... check your serial number.

Also, if at all possible, move the DVD-RW drive to a different IDE channel by itself. Having more then one writer on an IDE channel can cause you to have cross-talk between the drives and other funny problems that could possibly give you read/write errors.

[roadworker]

Could be as DopeWeasel says....if you're shure everything matches,then you can try this:
Put the drive seperate on an ide channel,then try to remove the idedrivers @ device manager,replace them by windows native busmaster drivers,disable any system monitoring program and set the transfer mode to PIO instead of DMA before the flash attempt...
What ide cable are you using?40 pin or 80 pin?