Gigabyte GO-W0804A DVD unrecognised by WinXP
I have a Gigabyte GO-W0804A DVD read/writer on my computer. It worked fine for some time, but a few months ago, it stopped being recognised on startup and showed up on Device Manager as gibberish (GMGEBjTE GO-W0[00tAd d d d). A visiting computer guru found a driver somewhere, but only after considerable searching, and got it up and running again. Then, a few days ago, I had a problem which ended up requiring a clean install, and I’ve lost and can’t locate the driver the guru found and I’m back to Square One. (He’s currently overseas and unreachable.)
I’ve tried uninstalling, disabling and looking for a driver on the Web (Gigabyte’s site was no help at all). Most sites say that that model DVD is fantastic and doesn’t require a driver with WinXP (I’m running XP Pro SP2 with all updates).
Is there anyone out there who can suggest a fix short of buying a new DVD writer?