Name: Ike Peters Date: August 20, 2007 at 12:19:30 Pacific Subject: Drivers for a HP 4804TE CD-Writer P OS: ME CPU/Ram: 933/256 Model/Manufacturer: HP
Comment:
Good day to all. Today, I am looking for a driver. I have been to the HP website, and have not been able to locate the driver for this item, it is a HP CD-Writer Plus (4804TE, and is a 4x4x24 ATAPI CD-Recordable Re-Writer Drive). I read somewhere that HP might have changed the model name/number on some of their cd writers, and may be that is why I am having difficulties in finding this driver. If anyone has info on where on the HP site I can fine the driver for this drive it would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time, and have a good one.
Well, I was actually going to try both, first just the regular HP drivers, to see if that was a right fix for my, problem, HP drivers over Windows drivers , next a firmware update, if the drivers didn`t fix the problem. The drive will function as a cd-rom aok, but when asked to do a burning function, will function for a while, then not, freezing the computer. The computer all functions aok, except for the cd-writer plus. I know that there are two different lasers one to read, and one to write, in the cd-writer,and there is possibility that the one to write is doa. Just trying to salvage, but not being able to even come up with a HP driver, thought I would come to this good forum to see if there was any imput that would help me find a HP driver, and/or a HP firmware update for this specific drive. Like I stated, I could not even find a driver for a 4804TE HP CD-Writer Plus. Also, the only identifying #`s on this drive are the ones I have listed, and according to the Hp site these are the right #`s to identify the drive. Thanks for any advice in advance.
Hmmmmmm, ok, I get it, first time coming to the ME forum, lets see if we can screw with the new guy, that`s ok, I am not a complete idiot, as you may think I am, I was just asking for a little help as I have helped others when I could at other Computing.Net Forums Thanks for the attitude.
You don't need drivers. I'm sure those links are all to dos drivers anyway. As already mentioned, windows supplies its own drivers.
As far as windows is concerned, your burner is just another cdrom. So once it recognizes a cdrom device is there, windows has done its job. It's the recording software that makes it a burner. Try uninstalling and then reinstalling your burner software.
Googling the model number--4804TE--gives quite a few firmware update links. So it'd probably be a good idea to opt for that too.
And of course it's very possible the burner is just bad.
In the UK DVDRW Drives are £15.00, approx half the price the PC base unit is worth, what is the point in trying to spend days looking for drivers which do not exist ??????
lol ...yes, the drivers there are obviously for DOS and 3.1. ...I was trying to get the point over that there is a contact HP button.
HP are usually not bad at all at responding to queries - any firmware / driver query shouldn't be a problem for them. I've contacted them numerous times for product information and other stuff, they have always been on the ball and helpful via email in the past.
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