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DVD drivers for 600E
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:57 pm
by lesvor
I have a 600E that i'm running XP on, it came with a CDRom but i recently purchased a dead 600X that has a DVD, i'd like to use it but i can't seem to find drivers for it. IMHO the IBM web site is a mess and I can't find anything there.
Any help?
Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 11:31 pm
by Wingnut
Here is the driver page for the 600 series laptops:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... SHY-3TLQ2L
But I thought it would be plug & play?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:15 am
by lesvor
Yeah I thought it would too with the XP installed but it's not.
I'm beginning to think that it can't be done. I had already looked through the driver page and found nothing.
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:13 am
by pkiff
The DVD player should be plug and play in XP. But to play DVD's - and sometimes even to have your player recognized as a DVD inside XP - you also need DVD codecs. These are not downloadable from IBM/Lenovo. The codecs are what allow you to decode a DVD. Is it possible that you have a DVD drive and it works fine but you don't have DVD player software installed?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 8:53 am
by lesvor
Well i guess that makes sense, since it is recognized and usable as a cdrom. so will any codecs work?
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:25 am
by ms5133
look in the post just below..lots of people have success with VLC Player..low on CPU and should play whatver you have.
http://www.videolan.org/
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:07 pm
by lesvor
Thank you, that worked perfectly.