Nec 2510A DVD RW

[Ray Dunn]

My new dual layer dvd burner is showing up under my computer as a cd drive.
My dvd rom drive shows up as a dvd rom drive under my computer. Why? When
I try to play a dvd on the burner it will not play automatically. If i open
it in windows media player it will play fine. It plays automatically when
inserted into my dvd rom drive.

I have the rom drive hooked up as a master and the burner hooked up as a
slave.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ray

 

[hmmmuhoh]

My new dual layer dvd burner is showing up under my computer as a cd drive.
My dvd rom drive shows up as a dvd rom drive under my computer. Why? When
I try to play a dvd on the burner it will not play automatically. If i open
it in windows media player it will play fine. It plays automatically when
inserted into my dvd rom drive.

I have the rom drive hooked up as a master and the burner hooked up as a
slave.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ray

Not sure how much this has todo with your problem, but I have the same
dvd burner and when I first got it, it showed up as a CD-ROM drive.
When I changed motherboards however (amd to p4, few weeks ago), it now
shows up as a DVD-RW drive. Dunno why...

 

[Paul Murphy]

My new dual layer dvd burner is showing up under my computer as a cd
drive.
My dvd rom drive shows up as a dvd rom drive under my computer. Why?
When
I try to play a dvd on the burner it will not play automatically. If i
open
it in windows media player it will play fine. It plays automatically when
inserted into my dvd rom drive.

I have the rom drive hooked up as a master and the burner hooked up as a
slave.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ray

Mine shows up as a DVD-RW drive under XP Pro SP2 - suggest that you
reconfigure the burner as the Master and make the old DVD ROM drive the
slave (after all the burner can do everything the DVD-ROM drive can do and
more). What Operating system are you using? Your DVD Software not working
with the new drive is probably because it doesn't realise the drive's been
added to the system - try reinstalling the software (after the drive
hardware reconfiguration).

Paul