dvd drive problems ...

[joecool]

<FONT color=#191970><FONT color=#000000>hoping you guys can help me on this one ... i recently upgraded my pioneer dvr 105 to the 106 - wanted to get dvd+r ability and it came in black which matches my case. however, ever since installing this drive my system has been flaking out on me. on several occasions the drive has just disappeared from my system; shutting down and rebooting after several minutes seems to fix this (rebooting instantly doesn't!?) on several other occasions the system has hung during cd writing or erasing. also, on boot-up the drive shows up in windows explorer as a dvd-rw; however, once i have used the drive to burn a disk it is shown as just being a cd-rom drive.

system specs: winxp pro, all the latest patches. latest firmware installed on the drive (1.07). nero 6, latest versions of everything. two optical drives installed, each as master on a seperate ide channel. allowing winxp to select dma mode, both are being set to "multi-word dma mode 2". the other drive is a pioneer dvd 106s. also running virtualCD which installs a virtual cd/dvd drive in the system.

at this piont i am at a complete loss as to how to debug this problem. i hate to hassle with returning it for repair but at i don't know what else to do. any ideas?</FONT></FONT>

 

[joecool]

bump anybody? i'd really appreciate any ideas here .... i'm about to return the bloody drive!

 

[Knightlife]

Well, see if you can try the drive in another system. If that's not possible, I would just return the thing and get a new one. If your system is still weird, maybe it's your power supply (assuming you just added the drive and didn't swap it out for another one)...? Not too sure about it being a power supply issue though. I'd just get a new drive first.

 

[Richard98]

I would try deleting the drives in device manager and force windows to re-recognize the drives and re-install drivers. If that doesn't work, I'd also try deleting the IDE controller and let Windows re-install it.

 

[joecool]

thanks, i'll try removing the drivers ... maybe since there used to be a pioneer dvr-105 windows got itself confused ... big surprise!