Firmware version is still "same" after update

[kimiraikkonen]

I have Windows XP Home and updated my drive's firmware but:

I read all of "how-to" and "faq" documents carefully then did as
exactly what steps are instructed. But after flashing successfully, my
drive's firmware is STILL displayed as P1.3 which means old firmware,
but i upgraded to P1.5 two times with NO failure but the shown version
is P1.3!!!

What will i belive in? Is it updated to P1.5 or did not? I'm not keen
on buying Philips optical drives anymore after that stupid and minor
fault of firmware engineers.

Please help how to determine to uptade the latest firmware version
(P1.5 it seems but did Not)

Note: Philips intelligent agent found an update which is NOT related
to my drive completely, i wasn't careful, i could damage my drive,
that's the second disappoinment of Philips.

Regards.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have Windows XP Home and updated my drive's firmware but:

I read all of "how-to" and "faq" documents carefully then did as
exactly what steps are instructed. But after flashing successfully,
my drive's firmware is STILL displayed as P1.3 which means old
firmware, but i upgraded to P1.5 two times with NO failure but the
shown version is P1.3!!!

What will i belive in? Is it updated to P1.5 or did not? I'm not
keen on buying Philips optical drives anymore after that stupid and
minor fault of firmware engineers.

Please help how to determine to uptade the latest firmware version
(P1.5 it seems but did Not)

Note: Philips intelligent agent found an update which is NOT related
to my drive completely, i wasn't careful, i could damage my drive,
that's the second disappoinment of Philips.

This has nothing to do with Windows XP.
Definitely nothing to do with the Help and Support feature *in* Windows XP.

Contact Philips with your issues and complaints about their products.

In all of that - you also did not give the model of Philips drive you have -
so no one can tell you if this is pure user error or not.

 

[kimiraikkonen]

This has nothing to do with Windows XP.
Definitely nothing to do with the Help and Support feature *in* Windows XP.

Contact Philips with your issues and complaints about their products.

In all of that - you also did not give the model of Philips drive you have -
so no one can tell you if this is pure user error or not.

OK, but if you would help, the shown version in "device manager" of XP
is "Philips CDRW48A".

however i found a newer firmware at:
http://www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/cdrw.html

BUT, as i stated, i flashed with no error messages and instructions as
explained but it's still shown P1.3?

Why?

 

[Gerry]

How do I know what has been changed?
Most firmware updates downloads also contain a document describing
the changes compared to the previous versions.

http://www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/upgrading.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[kimiraikkonen]

How do I know what has been changed?
Most firmware updates downloads also contain a document describing
the changes compared to the previous versions.

http://www.storageupdates.philips.com/en/upgrading.html

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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- Al nt y göster -

Gerry,
i'm not mentioning about "change-log" or "history-log" kinds. I'm just
against why does the newer (updated-P1.5)) version of firmware seem as
previous version(P1.3)? The drive or newer firmware acts as if it
wasn't updated...weird...

 

[Gerry]

Gerry,
i'm not mentioning about "change-log" or "history-log" kinds. I'm just
against why does the newer (updated-P1.5)) version of firmware seem as
previous version(P1.3)? The drive or newer firmware acts as if it
wasn't updated...weird...

Sorry I cannot help you with that.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Swifty]

i upgraded to P1.5 two times with NO failure but the shown version

is P1.3!!!

Wild guess: The firmware level in a drive is unlikely to change unless
you power off the PC. You may well have written the new code to the
drive, but it probably only reads it when it initially gets power.

 

[kimiraikkonen]

Wild guess: The firmware level in a drive is unlikely to change unless
you power off the PC. You may well have written the new code to the
drive, but it probably only reads it when it initially gets power.

Swifty,

i rebooted PC a lot of times (reboot or shut down) but the displayed
firmware is shown the previous version. Wilder guess: Maybe it's
updated memo of drive successfully, but firmware engineers have
forgotten putting P1.5 (newer) prefix to the firmware? Possible?

 

[Swifty]

i rebooted PC a lot of times (reboot or shut down) but the displayed

firmware is shown the previous version.

I'm almost out of ideas, but one thing I know I'd try - removing the
power lead to the PC, to guarantee that the drive is completely powered
down. I'm a great believer in absolute solutions, and I've seen several
conditions that required a complete removal of power to fix. It's also
something which is easy to do.
Modern systems have all sorts of strange BIOS power settings, which can
maintain power to devices even when the system is apparently off (think
of Wake-on-LAN for example). It's still possible that nothing short of
removing power from the box will recycle the drive. I'm probably
flogging a dead horse though.

Ths big problem with them forgetting to update the BIOS release to 1.5
is that you're still on 1.3 - they'd have to get it wrong twice in a
row. Getting it wrong once is bad luck, but getting it wrong twice is
careless (to paraphrase Oscar Wilde).

 

[kimiraikkonen]

I'm almost out of ideas, but one thing I know I'd try - removing the
power lead to the PC, to guarantee that the drive is completely powered
down. I'm a great believer in absolute solutions, and I've seen several
conditions that required a complete removal of power to fix. It's also
something which is easy to do.
Modern systems have all sorts of strange BIOS power settings, which can
maintain power to devices even when the system is apparently off (think
of Wake-on-LAN for example). It's still possible that nothing short of
removing power from the box will recycle the drive. I'm probably
flogging a dead horse though.

Ths big problem with them forgetting to update the BIOS release to 1.5
is that you're still on 1.3 - they'd have to get it wrong twice in a
row. Getting it wrong once is bad luck, but getting it wrong twice is
careless (to paraphrase Oscar Wilde).

Swifty, i did NOT get the wrong firmware even the site of burner is
enough complicated to download the wrong one. If plugging power cord
helps, i'll inform of course. But it's clear that the fault is
firmware's engineers who have forgotten to write the newer firmware
version into "newer" verision.