Acer 56X CD Rom

[IWASHERE]

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Here's the deal, I've got an Acer 56X CD Rom drive that upon recieving seemed to work great. Then I reformatted my hard drive and scince this it seems to be running kind of slow. Now, I'm not sure if device drivers are required for cd roms but there isn't one installed right now. I've been looking for one on the Acer homepage with no luck due to the fact that I don't know the model number of this drive. At any rate I would just like to restore this thing to it's former glory and any help will be greatly appreaciated.

[howste]

Windows doesn't require drivers for CD-ROM drives. I've seen a couple of motherboards that needed drivers for the IDE ports to work properly with CD-ROM drives in Windows though. Check to see if your motherboard manufacturer has drivers available for download at their website. Good luck!

[NDD]

There is some interesting bug with CD-ROM/CD-RW drives and VIA KT133 chipset.
You have to put your CD drive on "Master", either Primary or Secondary, then let the BIOS to "AutoDetect" it, not just leaving the field blank, and then you see your CD on post screen after the HD is being detected, but put "Auto" in the right line, where CD is supposed to be.
I noticed this few months ago when I got brand new Teac CD-W512EB 12/10/32 burner (on Abit KT7A (KT133A chipset)), in CDSpeed it acted like a ~16x CD-ROM, I suspected it's defective, but then I read some article dealing with that problem, which turned to be quite common. Now it works fine.

I hope I was clear enough :)

Best Regards ...

[TechDude]

I have a ACER 56max cd-rom drive that i bought abouth a month ago. Not sure if its the same model number as yours.. But it came with a floppy disk with drivers on it. If you want i could send you the files. PM me your email address or something.