VGN-AR11S Blu ray drive problem

[jackzelouf]

Hi,

I would be really grateful if someone could help me out with a big problem I am having with my blu ray drive.

I have a vgn-ar11s(uk version), which has been upgraded to windows vista. A couple of weeks ago the blu ray drive(matshita bd-mlt uj-210s) stopped reading discs. I uninstalled the driver from device manager and now every time I start windows it finds the drive, and says it needs to install the firmware.
It then searches for the firmware, and after about 5 minutes, it says that it can’t locate the driver software. I have tried to manually install drivers 1.03 and 1.06 from the vaio UK update site, but when the f/w loader runs, it always says f/w loader does not apply to the DVD/cd rom drive.
I am guessing that I need the original driver installed first, but I cannot find this anywhere. Please could someone help me!

Thanks

[Blencogo]

Hi jackzelouf,

If you look in Device Manager does it show an error (!) against your Matshita drive?

If so can you give us the "Error Code" quoted (e.g. Error 39)

[jackzelouf]

Hi,

There is no error shown against the device.

I have also uploaded a screenshot of what it says when i double click on the driver.

[jackzelouf]

Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

[Blencogo]

I'm not sure of the answer.

I have the same drive and I am using Windows 7 and the drive appears to use mainly generic Windows drivers. Under 'Driver Details' it gives the supplier of the drivers as "B H A Corporation" - see what you can get from Google???
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[jackzelouf]

I couln't find anyhting on google.

Would you be able to send me the orinal driver file which came with the pc.

I think it was version 1.01. They used to have it on sony's site, but it is not there anymore.

Any help would be much appreciated.