Omnibook 6100 DVD

I'm a volunteer refurbishing and distributing redundant PCs (more
available privately on request). I don't have the laptop, but can borrow
it back from its new owner.

I had reinstalled Win 2000 without access to HP distributed CD, relying
on driver downloads from HP site. (Earlier experience suggests site
stuff is not necessarily the complete story)

OK until music DVD inserted (tested only for CDs) when Win 2000
protested it didn't have "DVD decoder" installed.

It's not obvious from titles and descriptions of items downloaded from
HP site that any of them will resolve this problem. Is the missing
driver hidden there? Would I have the same problem if I had installed
Win XP instead?

Rummaging around on the web I think I've identified the DVD drive as QSI
SDR-081. Could be completely wrong in that, but it's the best fit I
could see without getting my hands on the laptop and looking inside
(plan to do that in a couple of days).

All suggestions welcomed

Mike Kingston

Michael J Kingston <> wrote:
> I'm a volunteer refurbishing and distributing redundant PCs (more
> available privately on request). I don't have the laptop, but can borrow
> it back from its new owner.
>
> I had reinstalled Win 2000 without access to HP distributed CD, relying
> on driver downloads from HP site. (Earlier experience suggests site
> stuff is not necessarily the complete story)
>
> OK until music DVD inserted (tested only for CDs) when Win 2000
> protested it didn't have "DVD decoder" installed.
>
> It's not obvious from titles and descriptions of items downloaded from
> HP site that any of them will resolve this problem. Is the missing
> driver hidden there? Would I have the same problem if I had installed
> Win XP instead?
>
> Rummaging around on the web I think I've identified the DVD drive as QSI
> SDR-081. Could be completely wrong in that, but it's the best fit I
> could see without getting my hands on the laptop and looking inside
> (plan to do that in a couple of days).
>
> All suggestions welcomed
>
> Mike Kingston

DVD decoders are extra items which do not come with Windows, but
normally come with the software which comes with the DVD drive. They are
licensed software and hence not 'free'.

For example on my OmniBook vt6200 (with Windows XP) I had InterVideo
WinDVD version 3.2. That came on a *seperate* CD (or DVD?). So hopefully
you can check with the previous owner if (s)he still has such a CD/DVD.

In message <47868840$0$53724$>, Frank Slootweg
<> writes
>Michael J Kingston <> wrote:
>> I'm a volunteer refurbishing and distributing redundant PCs (more
>> available privately on request). I don't have the laptop, but can borrow
>> it back from its new owner.
>>
>> I had reinstalled Win 2000 without access to HP distributed CD, relying
>> on driver downloads from HP site. (Earlier experience suggests site
>> stuff is not necessarily the complete story)
>>
>> OK until music DVD inserted (tested only for CDs) when Win 2000
>> protested it didn't have "DVD decoder" installed.
>>
>> It's not obvious from titles and descriptions of items downloaded from
>> HP site that any of them will resolve this problem. Is the missing
>> driver hidden there? Would I have the same problem if I had installed
>> Win XP instead?
>>
>> Rummaging around on the web I think I've identified the DVD drive as QSI
>> SDR-081. Could be completely wrong in that, but it's the best fit I
>> could see without getting my hands on the laptop and looking inside
>> (plan to do that in a couple of days).
>>
>> All suggestions welcomed
>>
>> Mike Kingston
>
> DVD decoders are extra items which do not come with Windows, but
>normally come with the software which comes with the DVD drive. They are
>licensed software and hence not 'free'.
>
> For example on my OmniBook vt6200 (with Windows XP) I had InterVideo
>WinDVD version 3.2. That came on a *seperate* CD (or DVD?). So hopefully
>you can check with the previous owner if (s)he still has such a CD/DVD.

Thanks for that clarification. I'll check with previous owner, but my
experience has been that they don't usually keep, or maybe never had
source CDs.

Mike Kingston
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Michael J Kingston