DVD drive did not install but a floppy drive did (I don't have one)

MrQueely said:

No I don't have another drive handy, but I was thinking about switching to a new one anyway. I don't even remember who made the one that's acting up (no name on it either).
This will take a while since I use PayPal and switching money through the bank and having the new drive delivered will take about 6 weeks lol.

Oh, dang! That doesn't sound like an ideal situation!

Well now that I think about it I only use the drive for bootable disks anyway. Now that I use the cloud so much I rarely transfer anything to disk.
Did I mention I can still boot from the drive?

MrQueely said:

Well now that I think about it I only use the drive for bootable disks anyway. Now that I use the cloud so much I rarely transfer anything to disk.
Did I mention I can still boot from the drive?

Yeah, that was in one of your first posts.

It's strange that you can boot from it, but it's not recognized by anything else.

I must apologize if I seem like I jump around and forget things. I am on medications that have greatly affected my memory, cognition, judgement, and critical thinking skills. I do not mean to deliberately mislead or omit important facts.

Thank You for your understanding!

MrQueely said:

I must apologize if I seem like I jump around and forget things. I am on medications that have greatly affected my memory, cognition, judgement, and critical thinking skills. I do not mean to deliberately mislead or omit important facts.

Thank You for your understanding!

I'm not on meds and I still can't remember all of what I need to! I think it has something to do with age . . .

Wynona said:

I'm not on meds and I still can't remember all of what I need to! I think it has something to do with age . . .

Oh yeah, I'm old too! That gave me 35 years of computer experience. But still I'm old!

Found my drive is no longer manufactured, so of course no Windows 10 driver available.

MrQueely said:

Found my drive is no longer manufactured, so of course no Windows 10 driver available.

For the most part, the user doesn't have to do anything to get a DVD/CD drive to work, but I guess there should be something Windows looks for to get it to run right.

MrQueely said:

Found my drive is no longer manufactured, so of course no Windows 10 driver available.

I haven't seen an optical drive (CD, DVD) for years that required drivers other than those supplied by Microsoft.

If you can boot from the drive, I expect that your problem is only in Windows. Replacing the drive may fix things, but it may not.

Is your system based on the M3N-HT Deluxe that you list? If so, that uses the old (2008) nVidia 780a motherboard chipset. The newest drivers that I see for it at Visual Computing Leadership from NVIDIA are for Windows 7. There are newer ones available through the Microsoft Update Catalog, but those may be a bit of a pain to install manually for non-experts (like me).

I own an old (2008) laptop with an nVidia chipset. When I upgraded it from Vista to Windows 7, I had some trouble getting Windows to recognize the chipset, until I got an installer to run. Subsequently, all updates were automatically installed.

I think that your system is likely to be completely supported by Windows 10, but it may take some fiddlin' to get it all running properly. I think that it'll be worth the effort.

bobkn, thank you very much for the info! Yes I am running M3N-HT Deluxe and I basically understand what you are saying but I don't know where to begin. I don't have the slightest idea about how to upgrade a MB chipset. All I can find are video drivers and BIOS updates, which are both up to date now.

I guess this what Google is for - it's time to learn something new.

Thanks again!