Hi to all members,
This being my first post here, I'd like to start by contributing some knowledge that may help some of you in the community:
If you where not aware if this, then it has been detected that Samsung CD-Rom drives, DVD-Rom Drives and CD-RW Recording units types have a firmware incompatibility with windows xp.
The model in question are dated from the year 2000 and 2001. Samsung issued a firmware patch wich cannot be run in windows xp, but that works fine once you update to sp1.
The driver/firmware incompatibility can be detected through the following symptoms:
1.- On Windows XP Install, the install aborts due to a problem identifed as not being able to read an *.cab file which contains the generic drivers for most hardware.
2.- On windows XP Installed ( pre SP1 ) system become unstable, and fails often to reboot properly.
3.- Software installation through cd-roms fails with unable to read data from file xxx.xx during installation process.
4.- Software installation fails due to error: Unable to find specified file ( even if it is then cdrom you are using ). Also when you locate this file on the cdrom or hard-drive it still cannot read/find the file.
If you have any or all of these symptoms, it is likely you will need to upgrade the firmware of your cd/dvd unit.
I will pot more on this later on.. right now Im in a rush
so look forward to next post and how to fix this problem while you are unable to upgrade the firmware.
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