Pioneer DVD-R/RW Manditory Firmware Update!!!

[jamesbond007]

Hey guys, just thought I'd pass this along. Apparently there is a bug with the drives burning 4x media. It can potentially ruin your discs and your drive! Pretty serious stuff.

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[Need4Speed]

DO IT NOW!! ... its mandatory

thnx for the heads up

 

[jamesbond007]

Hey guys! I just updated my firmware and all is well on my A04. It wouldn't run within Windows XP Pro SP1, so I just copied the extracted files to a floppy disk and ran the upgrade program from within real DOS. It worked like a charm!

Be sure you use a good floppy...it constantly reads from the disk during the update, which lasts about 25-30 seconds.

Once I booted back into Windows, it found all of my optical drives over again. I had to select the region of the DVD drive before it would work with DVD movies.

 

[cpars]

Thanks for the info.
I just ran the .exe from <U>winxp pro sp1</U> and all went just fine as far as I can tell.

 

[bacillus]

thanks for that!

 

[ccity]

Thanks for the heads up - upgraded my Cendyne (DVR-104) burner from 1.30 to 1.32

 

[BillDKiller]

Thanks for the info. I was dragging my feet because I'm too cheap to use the 2X media. But I guess I will do it now if it might cause damage to the drive.

Gosh, a free upgrade with a free disk available from a company that cares about it's customers! Are you listening Microsoft and HP?