I was at my friends house today and I wanted to install Company of Heroes on his computer (his house has 4). I have a HP Pavilion ZD8000, but I can't play Company of Heroes for long as it begins to overheat and the safety mechanism shuts down my notebook PC before any real damage is done. But anyway, I get ot his house and put in the DVD, and to my surprise nothing happened.
I know he had WoW installed and thought it was the DVD version, but he told me his brothers bought the 4 CD version since his Combo Drive cannot play DVDs. I did some research and installed WinDVD on his computer which allowed it to play video DVDs, but blank DVDs/game DVDs/application DVDs still cannot be read.
The problem is that both of his main computers (the ones I'm allowed to touch) have identical Combo drives. And worst yet, there is no brand or anything of the sort on the front panel of the blasted thing!
On the left side is the word "Combo 52x" in black letters with DVDROM in the middle (no color, just engraved). There are two buttons on the lower right side (>> and Eject). There is a headphone jack and a green LED light. The front panel itself is white/baige.
I checked the specs via Device Manager and traced it to BTC. Good, right? Wrong, I checked the pictures of the BTC Combo drives (using the ID from the Device Manager) and they look nothing alike. The BTC Combo drives have 4-in-1 Media Card readers which my friend's doesn't.
I asked him who built his computers and he said either his aunt of cousin and they probably don't know the brand either. This is extremely frustrating. Any suggestions? Ideas? Universal drivers? Thanks.
I know he had WoW installed and thought it was the DVD version, but he told me his brothers bought the 4 CD version since his Combo Drive cannot play DVDs. I did some research and installed WinDVD on his computer which allowed it to play video DVDs, but blank DVDs/game DVDs/application DVDs still cannot be read.
The problem is that both of his main computers (the ones I'm allowed to touch) have identical Combo drives. And worst yet, there is no brand or anything of the sort on the front panel of the blasted thing!
On the left side is the word "Combo 52x" in black letters with DVDROM in the middle (no color, just engraved). There are two buttons on the lower right side (>> and Eject). There is a headphone jack and a green LED light. The front panel itself is white/baige.
I checked the specs via Device Manager and traced it to BTC. Good, right? Wrong, I checked the pictures of the BTC Combo drives (using the ID from the Device Manager) and they look nothing alike. The BTC Combo drives have 4-in-1 Media Card readers which my friend's doesn't.
I asked him who built his computers and he said either his aunt of cousin and they probably don't know the brand either. This is extremely frustrating. Any suggestions? Ideas? Universal drivers? Thanks.
