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akbob
I have a problem that is driving me up the wall. My Sony DRU500-A
combo DVD+-R/RW drive was working fine up to about a month ago, when
all of a sudden it stopped recognizing DVD media of any sort, whether
it is a data DVD+R that I burned on this same system, a DVD-R, or even
a commericial DVD movie. It will, however, read & write CD media
without a hitch. This same drive will recognize the above mentioned
media when I install it into another Win98 PC that I own. A curious
thing is that my DVD-ROM drive will play DVD movies but not DVD-R
recorded movies, which it is supposed to be able to play (not really a
big problem, but I thought I'd mention it) My specs are as follows:
Windows XP Home-clean install
ASUS P4B533-VM
Pentium IV 2.4
1G PC 2700 DDR RAM
Soundblaster Live 5.1
PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB
LG DVD-ROM drive (installed as master on secondary IDE)
Sony DRU-500A (slave on seconday IDE)
before the "computer gremlins" came in at some unknown time, this
hardware setup worked flawlessly. I don't do a lot of adding &
subtracting software, about the only thing I've been doing is
installing Windows updates & updates to Norton AV. I use Nero 5.5 for
burning, and even went to version 6 "Ultra" a week or so ago thinking
this might help, but no use. Sony's drive check SW shows no read/write
problems with their unit, & the fact that it works in another machine
suggests it's not a bad unit, but some sort of driver issue. I'm at
the point of considering a format/reinstall of XP, but don't want to
since everything else is running at 99.999% perfect. I would welcome
anyone's help. I would welcome either reply via this NG or e-mail. TIA
combo DVD+-R/RW drive was working fine up to about a month ago, when
all of a sudden it stopped recognizing DVD media of any sort, whether
it is a data DVD+R that I burned on this same system, a DVD-R, or even
a commericial DVD movie. It will, however, read & write CD media
without a hitch. This same drive will recognize the above mentioned
media when I install it into another Win98 PC that I own. A curious
thing is that my DVD-ROM drive will play DVD movies but not DVD-R
recorded movies, which it is supposed to be able to play (not really a
big problem, but I thought I'd mention it) My specs are as follows:
Windows XP Home-clean install
ASUS P4B533-VM
Pentium IV 2.4
1G PC 2700 DDR RAM
Soundblaster Live 5.1
PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB
LG DVD-ROM drive (installed as master on secondary IDE)
Sony DRU-500A (slave on seconday IDE)
before the "computer gremlins" came in at some unknown time, this
hardware setup worked flawlessly. I don't do a lot of adding &
subtracting software, about the only thing I've been doing is
installing Windows updates & updates to Norton AV. I use Nero 5.5 for
burning, and even went to version 6 "Ultra" a week or so ago thinking
this might help, but no use. Sony's drive check SW shows no read/write
problems with their unit, & the fact that it works in another machine
suggests it's not a bad unit, but some sort of driver issue. I'm at
the point of considering a format/reinstall of XP, but don't want to
since everything else is running at 99.999% perfect. I would welcome
anyone's help. I would welcome either reply via this NG or e-mail. TIA