DVD Writer not Recognized by Vist Beta 2

[Guest]

I have an ACER Aspire T650, 2.8ghz Celeron D, 1.5 gb of DDR2 Ram, AI Radeon
X1300 (256 mb), TV Wonder Pro w/out remote (this card works but I get screen
flicker and it does not work with Vista MC). I am running Vista on a 80 gb
Seagate HDD with the ole ribbon technology. Windows XP SP2 is running on a
SATA 160 gb HDD. I have to hit the boot too screen button to boot to Vista.
It would not work as a multi-boot system even after I installed the ULi
controller driver for Vista. My real problem lies in that the DVD Writer will
not write in Vista. Here are the spec's on the DVD Writer: IDE
drive...HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GWA-4164B. This DVD Writer came with the base system
when I purchased it. In Win XP it uses IMAPI Drivers and Sonic Drivers and
NTI Drivers, Arcsoft and Microsoft drivers also. I think the drive is

 

[Guest]

Hi David,

It looks like you and I have the same problem. I have a Panasonic 16X DVD
Writer that my system recognizes as a Toshiba drive. It worked fine in
Windows 2003 Server, but not in Vista. This makes it very hard to do anything
with Vista. I hope someone out there has a solution that will help both of us.

 

[Guest]

Does the drive show up in device manager? Any bangs/codes?

 

[Guest]

Hello Ron,

Vista is acting very strangely. This is only one example. The drive has
always showed up in the Device Manager, but inserting a disk would not cause
it to spin up and so Vista would ask me to insert a disk. In response to your
question, I decided to look at it again. I inserted a DVD and Voila!, it spun
up and read the disk. For five days it would not do this, but today it does.
This is quite disconcerting. I cannot trust it to act consistently.

Another anomaly has to do with my LAN. Sometimes it cannot find it at all,
then a day later, most (but not all) of the computers on my network
mysteriously show up. Today, on a screen that I had not touched in two days,
a computer that had not shown up two days ago was mysteriously present, and a
computer that had been there two days ago is now gone. This kind of behavior
is worse than something that just flat doesn't work. You never know what to
expect.