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LG GCE-8240B Driver Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Der
Tested on MSDOS
8 Mar 2009
(21 hours after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I want one to run in Dos This needs windows."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
amj2008
Tested on Windows Vista x64
29 Apr 2008
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"not usable with vista ultimate ...........still waiting for LG on advise of Nero 8 team..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gary Hall

24 Mar 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"WARNING THIS DRIVER IS FOR LG CRD-8240B to Version 1.19 (GOLDSTAR/LG) AND NOT THE LG GCE-8240B. ITS LISTED UNDER THE WRONG PRODUCT/MODEL"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Felipe
Tested on Windows XP
26 Apr 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"nao deu pra instalar... q merda!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Dave

28 Jan 2007
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Too many hoops to jump through just to find out from the comments of others that it doesn't work!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
al
Tested on Windows XP
2 Nov 2006
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 2 out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"failed to download properly. file was corrupted"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Crocko
Tested on Windows XP
31 Oct 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Upon reading previous comments on driver decided not to install untill correct driver found, if any."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gilson Lage

18 Apr 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Não usei ainda..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gilson Lage

18 Apr 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Não usei ainda..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gilson Lage

18 Apr 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Não usei ainda..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Antonio
Tested on Windows XP
14 Apr 2006
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Very bad !

Muito Ruim!

Antonio"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Carl
Tested on Windows XP x64
16 Feb 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"This driver is supposed to be for HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE8240B but it does not recognize my CD-ROM. When booting from startup disk it correctly IDs my drive but then changes its mind."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gus
Tested on Windows XP
18 Oct 2005
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"Also would not work on my burner."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
wikki

10 May 2005
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"NO. This is NOT for GCE-8240B CD-Burner!!

It says it's for LG CRD-8240B which is just a LG CD-ROM Drive."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
XYZ

28 Apr 2005
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Doesn't work for GCE-8240B CD-R/RW"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
pioneernoir
Tested on Windows XP
12 Feb 2005
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"not for OEM device"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gerry

25 Jan 2005
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Don't know, couldn't download the drivers."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
shawn k
Tested on Windows 98SE
22 Jan 2005
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"i guess there are 2 different firmwares for this model but there different cd burners, i have a HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B Firmware revision 1.08 anyway this is not the one i needed."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Robert Lundberg

18 Nov 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Driver seems to be written for CRD-8240b (cd-rom) and not GCE-8240b (cd-rw).

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Bevan

2 Sep 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"It doesn't woth with the Asia/Pacific release of the drive - I think it's firmware model starts with GCE-HT...."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Ray Blanchard

30 May 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I couldn't figure out whether my drive was OEM or LG. Decided not to touch it. The drive is working now so I'm not going to mess with the firmware unless it becomes a problem. I recommend you find out **exactly** what you have before you try this."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Cesar

10 Apr 2004
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"it doesn´t works with win xp pro"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Bill Wolf

27 Nov 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Why?---- It is not driver of GCE 8240B(CD-RW)? I will test it. Thank you !"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Greg M

18 Nov 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I've got Windows 2000 and he can read the cdrom in bios but not in windows. There is an error (31). It says he can't load my driver. And this all happened afther i installed Easycreator. Can u help me? Thnx"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
David

8 Nov 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Maybe this Makes ya feel better about upgrading. www.lgeservice.com/firmup3.html"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
hediz

8 Nov 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Gracias por éste gran servicio de controladores. Very importanting service.Thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Tony

6 Nov 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I have a compaq computer with this cd_rw and compaq has write it's a 16x but here is a 24x that's funny ) thx for the driver"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Roger

23 Aug 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"OEM Stands for original equipment manufacturer, which is a misleading term for a company that has a special relationship with computer producers. OEMs buy computers in bulk and customize them for a particular application. They then sell the customized computer under their own name. The term is really a misnomer because OEMs are not the original manufacturers -- they are t
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nik

15 Aug 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"so where do i get the driver for GCE-8240B for a cdrw and not cdrom cant seem to find it. would apprieate if some1 could e-mail the site if possible"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
RBS

7 Aug 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"good support fast search very useful"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Magnus

2 Aug 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"The warnings were enough to prevent me from trying this thing ! However, I need badly a driver for the OEM LG Electronics CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive (either WinXP, Windows 2000 or Windows 98 SE, I have those three operational systems installed), indeed what I really need is the DVD decoder for that device. Thank you very much for the possibility of finding my driver and better l
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Al.C

16 Jul 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I can't open this file"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Vudrok

17 May 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"THANK YOU FOR THE ADVISE I APPRICIATE IT!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
John-Paul

14 May 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!!PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!!!! READ!!!!DO NOT USE ON GCE-8240B!!! THIS DRIVER IS ONLY FOR THE CDR-8240B, WHICH IS NOT A CDRW, BUT ONLY A CDROM DRIVE!!!! PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE, AND JERRY, PLEASE EDIT YOUR POST AND DO MORE RESEARCH BEFORE YOU POST NEXT TIME, BECAUSE YOU HAVE LIKELY CAUSED MANY TO KILL THEIR DRIVES!! SORRY FOR THE CAPS, BUT IT'S ONLY
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
John-Paul

14 May 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"THIS IS NOT THE PROPER DRIVER FOR THE GCE-8240B, IT's ONLY FOR THE CDR8240B. If you're lucky you've tried to use this and it told you that it wasn't the proper driver/drive and to exit, and if you were not lucky you hosed your cdrw drive. Remove this link before more people ruin their drives. THE PROPER DRIVER FOR THE GCE-8240B is 1.08. DO NOT INSTALL THIS IF YOU HAVE THE
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Saavedra Valentim

31 Mar 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Well I now will stall the driver in my computer and I expect that the feurio program could run without any problem, because it did not get to reconize my recorder cd, once this driver does not took part of its lits of drivers. LG wasn't found. But now I hope all will be ok. Tks. Best retgards. Saavedra Valentim"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
mowse

6 Feb 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Well, I want to thank you for this info. It solved a 4 day dillemma in doing a rebuild. We couldn't get Easy CD Creator Platinum to recognise the CDRW... and the notes that come with this firmware update.. READ'EM!!! Doesn't work for OEM product."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Steve Wasnt

13 Jan 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Thanks for posting the driver. I will test and check files to see if this driver will work. I may rewrite code for OEM model if that is what I have and post later. Many Thanks Steve Wasnt Was"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
eduardo mastrangelo

6 Jan 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"thans for all yours services, i hope run my system thnkyou so much, excuse me for my english"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
ron

2 Jan 2003
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"why doesn't it work for OEM? why winXP? anyone found one for 2000?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Nisse

12 Nov 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Hope it works now."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Andre

19 Oct 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"thx alot ..I've been lookin for this.. for along time.. now.."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
vu tuan anh

29 Sep 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Do you know drive work for windows98 thanks"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
ismolika

26 Aug 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"i get model numbers dont mach error, any idea anyone?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Joaci

17 Aug 2002
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I was looking that drive for a long time, Thanks"
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