DVD no longer recognized

[Guest]

I installed Vista on my Macbook Pro. My Matshita DVD worked for a week and
then stopped working. I tryed rolling back the driver, uninstalling the
drivers everything. And nothing. Still not recognized. Is there a driver
out there for Vista Home Premium that will cure this problem. Or is there
anything I can do. Windows still recognizes that I have the Hardware there.
Funny thing is when I boot up into Mac. The drivers work fine.

Please email me at (e-mail address removed)

thank you in advance

 

[emanon]

I installed Vista on my Macbook Pro. My Matshita DVD worked for a week and
then stopped working. I tryed rolling back the driver, uninstalling the
drivers everything. And nothing. Still not recognized. Is there a
driver
out there for Vista Home Premium that will cure this problem. Or is there
anything I can do. Windows still recognizes that I have the Hardware
there.
Funny thing is when I boot up into Mac. The drivers work fine.

Please email me at (e-mail address removed)

thank you in advance

Cha-Ching! Hear that cash register ring! Ya gotta buy a new drive that's
Vista approved.

The real question here is why did you go from a perfectly good and working
Mac to even *thinking* of going to Vista? Vista is a money grubbing tool
designed to suck every dollar out of your wallet, first for the upgrade,
then for more memory to run it and finally for more hardware that will work
with Vista. Lots of hardware makers are *not* writing Vista drivers. Why? So
you have to go buy more hardware and drive their sales up.

Cha-Ching! Hear that cash register ring! See how it works?

 

[Conor]

I installed Vista on my Macbook Pro. My Matshita DVD worked for a week and
then stopped working. I tryed rolling back the driver, uninstalling the
drivers everything. And nothing. Still not recognized. Is there a driver
out there for Vista Home Premium that will cure this problem. Or is there
anything I can do. Windows still recognizes that I have the Hardware there.
Funny thing is when I boot up into Mac. The drivers work fine.

Please email me at (e-mail address removed)

Replace the cdrom.sys file - it's got corrupted.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I installed Vista on my Macbook Pro. My Matshita DVD worked for a week and
then stopped working. I tryed rolling back the driver, uninstalling the
drivers everything. And nothing. Still not recognized. Is there a
driver
out there for Vista Home Premium that will cure this problem. Or is there
anything I can do. Windows still recognizes that I have the Hardware
there.
Funny thing is when I boot up into Mac. The drivers work fine.

Please email me at (e-mail address removed)

thank you in advance

What programs and devices did you install between the time it worked and the
time it didn't?

 

[Guest]

Great!!!!! That really bites. I have several thousand dollars in software
that I wasn't prepared to lose yet so I thought why not just buy Vista and
runa dual system.... I went Mac. because I am tired of making Bill Gates's
car payment (or one of them). Why would my DVD drive work for a week or so
and then just stop???

Thank you for your response.

John

 

[Guest]

I just installed Office 07. My son installed a couple of games and that's
it....

Thanks

John

 

[Kerry Brown]

It has to be something that changed in between when it worked and when it
didn't. Do you have any Roxio software installed? There was a Windows update
that caused some problems with the Sonic DLA driver that is part of Roxio.
There is a fix for that here.

http://docs.roxio.com/patches/d2d3290.exe

 

[Guest]

Hello

I have not installed any Roxio equipment. I tried Windows restore and
nothing. A game was installed and it did run for about a day. I also tried
to reinstall the drivers for Window running on a Mac. (Boot Camp). And still
nothing. Any idea's.

Thanks

John

 

[Kerry Brown]

I don't have any personal experience running Vista on a Mac so all I can do
is guess. Are there any errors in the event logs that may be related? Look
closely at any errors on startup.

 

[Guest]

This is what error messages I get when I start Windows.... Don't know much
about it.

Do you know how to decifer this?????

Thanks

John
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
Date: 2/14/2007 7:59:08 AM
Event ID: 203
Task Category: Shutdown Performance Monitoring
Level: Error
Keywords: Event Log
User: LOCAL SERVICE
Computer: JohnFerguson-PC
Description:
This service caused a delay in the system shutdown process:
File Name : LanmanServer
Friendly Name : Server Service DLL
Version : 6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)
Total Time : 9765ms
Degradation Time : 5765ms
Incident Time (UTC) : 2/14/2007 7:34:46 AM
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance"
Guid="{cfc18ec0-96b1-4eba-961b-622caee05b0a}" />
<EventID>203</EventID>
<Version>1</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>4007</Task>
<Opcode>41</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000010000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2007-02-14T13:59:08.963Z" />
<EventRecordID>26</EventRecordID>
<Correlation ActivityID="{00000000-4B7C-0001-32BE-F1034050C701}" />
<Execution ProcessID="1580" ThreadID="1956" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational</Channel>
<Computer>JohnFerguson-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-19" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="StartTime">2007-02-14T07:34:46.091Z</Data>
<Data Name="NameLength">13</Data>
<Data Name="Name">LanmanServer</Data>
<Data Name="FriendlyNameLength">19</Data>
<Data Name="FriendlyName">Server Service DLL</Data>
<Data Name="VersionLength">39</Data>
<Data Name="Version">6.0.6000.16386 (vista_rtm.061101-2205)</Data>
<Data Name="TotalTime">9765</Data>
<Data Name="DegradationTime">5765</Data>
<Data Name="PathLength">31</Data>
<Data Name="Path">C:\Windows\system32\srvsvc.dll</Data>
<Data Name="ProductNameLength">37</Data>
<Data Name="ProductName">Microsoft® Windows® Operating System</Data>
<Data Name="CompanyNameLength">22</Data>
<Data Name="CompanyName">Microsoft Corporation</Data>
</EventData>

 

[Kerry Brown]

I wouldn't think that was related. That's a warning from the shutdown
process. Hopefully someone else may be able able to answer your original
question. I'm stumped.

 

[Guest]

Hey there - re: teh suggestion to do the CDROM.SYS file, you might try and
run the Windows System File Checker - this used to save my ass in Windows XP
all the time when old programs overwrote files I needed. To run this in
Vista:

Click Start, and type "cmd" into the search text box.
Right click on the cmd icon that appears i nthe list and click "Run as
administrator"
When the command prompt window appears, type "sfc /scannow" and press enter.

From http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928228 :

"The SFC.exe program performs the following operations:
• It verifies that non-configurable Windows Vista system files have not
changed. Also, it verifies that these files match the operating system's
definition of which files are expected to be installed on the computer.
• It repairs non-configurable Windows Vista system files, when it is
possible."

Not promising anything, but it might work. BTW - this may take a while to
run!! That MSDN link also tells you how to look at the log file that SFC
makes - tho I haven't tried that myself. The process was a whole easier in
Windows XP - I hope Microsoft do something about it...!

 

[Guest]

Thank you very much... I am running it now. I hope it works.

I appreciate the help you all have been giving me. Unfortunately I am in
Africa at present and left my CD of Windows home. I should bring it and
throw it over the side and see if it floats in salt water.....