Is this a ide controller driver problem?

joelsz · Feb 5, 2010

I recently came into possession of a very old Toshiba Satellite 1800-s203 laptop. Although I have no use for this machine, I thought I'd see if I could get it running XP Pro. It has a sticker on the case saying it is "certified for Win 2000".
This is a 700 Mhz machine with a floppy drive and DVD drive.
The FDD will not read floppies made on any other machine but will format and write floppies that can be read on other machines.
The DVD reads data DVDs and CDs, but does not recognize movie DVDs.
I wonder if this might be a ide controller issue.
Any ideas how to find out for sure?

DavidGP · Feb 5, 2010

Hi Joelsz

It could be an IDE issue, but possible also old drivers, so would try and see if you can find the latest Chipset driver for that model PC and install it and reboot.

Can you open the root directory of a DVD film? it maybe just missing audio/video codecs and try K-lite as they support W2k HERE

Maybe worth attaching a Everest log as at times a summary log of your PC can help, to do this

Install Everest and run
Click Report (top menu) > Report Wizard > Next
Choose System Summary Only > Next
Choose Plain Text > Finish and wait for report to generate
Click Save to File and leave the File Name as Report, then click the Save as Type dropdown and choose Report files (*txt) and click Save (n.b. Save to desktop is best as easy place to find it, use Browse to locate desktop)

Then attach your log to your next post as per these instructions HOW TO: Attach Items To Your Post
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joelsz · Feb 5, 2010

Halo
Thank you.
The Codec Pack seems to have fixed the DVD problem.

I have attached the Everest report.

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Is this a ide controller driver problem?

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Attached Files:

Report.txt