Jun 22, 2006, 09:32 AM
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You shouldn't need a new firmware for the optical drives...
How are you getting this computer, anyway? Is it something you're building, or is it something from a PC manufacturer?
All optical drives have a firmware on them when you get them from wherever you bought them, so unless they stop functioning properly, updating their firmware is not really necessary. (In my experience, updating an optical drive's firmware when it works fine has caused nothing but trouble.)
The only firmware you might think about upgrading is your motherboard's firmware/BIOS, but, again, you only need to do that if something doe not function correctly.
You shouldn't need a dual core driver or hot fix since the OS will have its own kernel drivers for handling that. (In other words, the OS will take care of that for you. You might need to have your motherboard's drivers installed for... better performance, but it will, more than likely, work without them.)
How ya doing, buddy?
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Snowknight