Sony CRX0811 Windows2000 CD-ROMs Dissapear Due to Bad Driver

The eXpress software that comes with the Sony Spressa CRX0811 doesn't work with Windows 2000. The symptom is that all your CD-ROM drives stop working, and show up in the device manager with little alert badges on their icons.

The version I had that failed was 1.1.

The fix is to update the software. The you can download the updater from Sony's website. It updates you to verion 2.0.

If you uninstalled the eXpress software while trying to get the CD-ROMs back, you will discover that the updater won't update your drivers, because the application was uninstalled. You won't be able to install it again because your CD-ROMs don't work. Doh!

So, you need to dig up a copy of eXpress.

I found a functioning version of eXpress, version 1.3, at DriverGuide.com. It works with Win2k.

Once this version is installed, you can use the updater to finish up.