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DVD driver cant be installed

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by george at techrepublic with bt

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I am trying to move an old DVD from my old PC to my new and even though i have the windvd on CD ,it asks for PCchips something,i supposse a piece of hardwarer that existed in my old PC.
Any ideas how and if i can make this DVD usable in my new PC??
Thanks in advance

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by thechas

Some additional details would be helpful.

Version of Windows
Make and model of the DVD drive
Version of WinDVD

First, the primary drivers for any IDE drive be it CD or DVD are handled by the IDE driver for the chip-set on your motherboard. No further drivers should be needed.

Second, if your new PC has Windows XP, make sure that you have the updates and / or service pack 1 installed.
Also, make sure that the version of WinDVD that you have supports Windows XP.
You may simply need anewer version of WinDVD.

Third, on the old PC, did you use a hardware decoder card?
Many early DVD drives were sold with hardware decoder cards. Your drive and or software may be looking for the decoder card.

Chas

by guruofdos

PC Chips are mainboard manufacturers and it's probably asking for a driver CD. With correctly working IDE controllers, as Chas says, drives should be recognised by the system and work automatically. It may be that PCChips bundled an OEM copy of WinDVD on their motherboard driver CD (often the case) and THIS is what it is asking for! Certainly the Driver CD for the M810LMR mobo had this, as did most of their 'PC133' disks.

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