I am using windows 8 at home as a primary OS at the moment and I’ve ran into a few bugs. Today I couldnt access my DVD drive so I looked in device manager and see HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS90 that has the little yellow symbol next to it. But this is meant to run off the generic windows driver that is included on all windows systems…
Quite strange I was thinking so I decided to look up the hardware ID’s on google and downloaded the driver and installed the driver. Nothing changed, then I found this handy Microsoft KB with a Mr. Fixit. The Mr. FixIt didn’t work due to me running windows 8 and them not updating them to work on windows 8 yet. So I deleted 2 keys out of the registry and restarted. Then there was my DVD drive working again.
Just open the registry editor by pressing the windows button and typing regedit.exe and press enter. Then navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
and delete UpperFilters and LowerFilters and then restart.
