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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
July 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
874 pages
38h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Determining the Firmware Revision of Your CD Writer

Before you update your CD writer firmware, it’s a good idea to find out which version is already installed. That way, if you have problems under the new firmware, you can revert to a known configuration by reinstalling the older version. Most mainstream CD writer software can display detailed information about installed CD writers, including firmware revision level. If you run Windows, download a free copy of Nero InfoTool from http://www.nero.com. This utility, shown in Figure 11-1, is the best we’ve seen for viewing firmware level and other characteristics of a CD writer, and you can use it even if you don’t have Nero Burning ROM.

Nero InfoTool displaying the characteristics of this CD writer, showing the current firmware revision as 1.02

Figure 11-1. Nero InfoTool displaying the characteristics of this CD writer, showing the current firmware revision as 1.02

You can also get some of this information directly from Windows, as described in the following sections.

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