OT- DVD drive trouble

[Randallw]

here is a bios agent report

I am assuming the motherboard is AMD.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...calResources/0,,30_182_871_2336,00.html

only the drivers available are older than my computer.

I'm pretty certain the chipset is nvidia but their website appears not to have any drivers.

[Saber Cherry]

Randallw said:
here is a bios agent report

I am assuming the motherboard is AMD.

I'm pretty certain the chipset is nvidia but their website appears not to have any drivers.

Yes, you have an NForce chipset, but AMD does not make motherboards.

You can get your chipset drivers here:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

But unfortunately I don't know which chipset you have. The drivers are different for nForce 1, 2, 3, and 4. nVidia doesn't seem to offer a tool that identifies it for you and the serial number means nothing to me.

You need to look at your motherboard manual (if you have one) or your computer owner's manual, or your receipt, or something... somewhere it will tell you the exact brand and model of your motherboard and chipset. The motherboard brand will be something like "Asus" or "Asrock" or "Abit" or "Soltek" or "Soyo"; something that a computer might randomly pick when autogenerating names by randomly concatenating phonemes.

If you don't have any of the original documentation or manuals, the name of the chipset and manufacturer are both written on the motherboard, but may be hard to find with all the other words written on it.

[Randallw]

What I assume is the motherboard (biggest board, has all the other stuff plugged in. Gold) has soltek written on it (I recognised the name). The big chip has nForce2 written on it. The only other numbers of note on the board are, SL-75frn2-L, on a connector, don't suppose that's it and t328041A (that one has a strange A. something under it written upside down)

[Randallw]

silly me , totally forgot I had the origianl box under my desk. It says nForce2 Ultra 400. There is also a sticker saying fsb400, AGP 8x Dual channel DDR 400.

What do you know, the box had a couple of manuals. seems SL-75FRN2 was important. There's a manual which boldly says soltek and that number.