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Hp CDWriter Plus 7500 series

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by dmcelyea

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I installed Win2000 Pro. Downloaded software from Hp that was supposed to load drivers for the CD Writer. I ran the exe then the OS started blue screening and rebooting. Tried to go in safemode and other modes but OS was still blue screening. This is an external drive. Could someone give me some info on setting this up under Win2000.

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by mckaytech

Ah, your story has a familiar ring to it. I had a similar experience with my parallel port HP7200e when I tried to use their latest driver (a file called epatap2k.exe with a size of about 275k) with Win2K Pro.

However, the earlier driver (a file called epat150.exe with a size of 102k and released back in July) works fine under Win2K Pro, SP1.

You may also need to do the firmware upgrade for the drive if the rev level is not at least 3.01.

Now the applications software is another animal. I'm using NTI CD-Maker Pro 2000 and it works well. I also tried Nero and it worked as well. But I never was able to get the new Adaptec software to work properly. However, other folks have reported different results. Nero and NTI both have trial downloads so you can try them to see if they will work with your particular hardware.

regards!

paul

by dmcelyea

I created a second hardware profile hoping that after the install of the HP exe that if Win2000 did the blue screen again I could go in with Profile 1 and be alright. That didn't help it still did the blue mem dump. Will try your suggestion. Thanks very much.

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